U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Hosts Vector Control Experts to Discuss Strategies to Combat Aedes Aegypti

Meetings to be held February 27th and 28th



February 27, 2017


Atlanta, GA - - (February 22, 2017) - - The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventon (CDC), in collaboration with the CDC Foundation, will convene a two-day meeting February 27-28, 2017, to exchange facts and information about options and methods for monitoring and controlling Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and to reduce illness in people from Zika and other diseases transmitted by this mosquito. More than 150 expert scientists from around the world have been invited to report on the state of the science, successes and challenges of existing mosquito control tools, innovative methods to control mosquitoes, and to give input on the design of large, well-controlled epidemiologic studies to evaluate these tools. The opening and closing sessions will be webcast.


Included in the scheduled participants are:

Judith Monroe, MD, FAAFP, President and CEO, CDC Foundation

Lyle R. Petersen, MD, MPH; Director, Division of Vector Borne Infectious Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

C. Ben Beard, PhD, Chief, Bacterial Diseases Branch, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases



Webcast times are Monday, February 27, from 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. ET, and Tuesday, February 28, from 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. ET

Information source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention