Battling the bugs

A team of scientists has toiled for eight years to develop treatments for mosquito-borne viruses that have plagued people in developing nations – and crept into Northern Colorado.    

Scientists John Roehrig and Amanda Calvert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vector-borne diseases lab in Fort Collins and Colorado State University scientist Carol Blair are.

The scientists and others are targeting West Nile, dengue fever and yellow fever, all of which can cause brain swelling and severe fever. The most widespread of these viruses is dengue fever, contracted by 400 million people annually worldwide. The disease is sometimes fatal, particularly…