Spatial Pattern of the Dengue Vector in Iquitos, Peru STOR 940 Summary of Final Presentation
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With no vaccine or medicine specifically designed to treat Dengue, attention naturally shifts to prevention. Minimizing the risk of the disease equates to minimizing the exposure to aedes aegypti. Getis, Morrison, Gray, and Scott conducted a spatial study of the distribution of the aedes aegypti in Iquitos, Peru, a city of about 345,000 people 120m above sea level in the Amazon basin area of Peru. They find strong evidence of clustering for both adult and pupal aedes aegypti at a distance of 10m, and weaker evidence that adults cluster with distances as large as 30m.
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