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ID#:

2602

Caption:

This historic photograph depicted the flatbed of a mosquito spray truck, which had been fitted with a pneumatic system used to disperse mosquito insecticide used to combat populations of Aedes aegypti during the 1965 mosquito eradication program in Miami, Florida. In the 1960s, a major effort was made to eradicate the principal urban vector mosquito of dengue and yellow fever viruses, A. aegypti, from the southeastern United States.

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Content Provider(s):

CDC

Creation Date:

1965

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