Disease Experts Team Up With Florida Museum of Natural History To Create a Forecast for West Nile Virus (Florida Museum)

UF researchers collaborated to develop a statistical model based on two decades of sentinel chicken data to forecast West Nile virus activity in Florida up to six months in advance, providing health officials with a proactive tool to help prevent outbreaks.
Shift in Florida’s Lizard Population Could Influence Spread of Mosquito-Borne Diseases, UF/IFAS Scientists Probing Impacts
A team of UF scientists is looking to unveil the implications of a battle between two lizard species that influence the spread of mosquito-borne diseases in Florida.