Rescuing Troves of Hidden Ecological Data to Tackle Emerging Mosquito-Borne Diseases.

ABSTRACT: Despite the major impact of mosquitoes on human health, knowledge gaps exist regarding their natural population dynamics. Even the most basic information-such as spatiotemporal abundance-is mostly unavailable. In the USA, municipalities have created agencies for mosquito control and monitoring, yet no national open-access repository for mosquito surveillance data exists. Vectors, and the pathogens they transmit, know no jurisdictions. We identify >1,000 mosquito control agencies and identify those which make their population abundance surveillance data publicly available. We directly survey Floridian mosquito districts to estimate, from one state alone, the potential amount of hidden data. We generate a large, standardized data set from publicly available online data and demonstrate that s

SUBMITTER: Rund SSC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6709599 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature