{"id":18793,"date":"2026-05-21T11:07:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=18793"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:07:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:07:39","slug":"protecting-canadians-from-mosquito-borne-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2026\/protecting-canadians-from-mosquito-borne-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Canadians from Mosquito-Borne Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Protecting Canadians from Mosquito-Borne Diseases\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                                    \n\n<p>Mosquito\u2011borne diseases like West Nile virus and eastern equine encephalitis are becoming a growing concern in Canada as climate change expands mosquito habitats and introduces new species. ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University PhD candidate Marc Avramov is developing high\u2011resolution models that track where and when mosquitoes, hosts, and pathogens interact, aiming to improve risk assessment and public\u2011health responses.<\/p>\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Read full article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/challenge.carleton.ca\/mosquito-borne-diseases-canada\/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=homepage&amp;utm_campaign=challenge&amp;utm_content=challlengebox\">Protecting Canadians from Mosquito-Borne Diseases<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read full article here: Protecting Canadians from Mosquito-Borne Diseases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":481,"featured_media":18794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18795,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18793\/revisions\/18795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}