Word: stegomyia
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...From his experiments, Dr. Reed found that the domestic mosquito (stegomyia fasciata) is the lone carrier of the yellow fever germ. The virus of the fever is a parasite that requires an alternate passage through a vertebrate and an insect host...