{"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. Carleton 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}]}}