Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya: The danger in the Alpine region

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Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya: The danger in the Alpine region

The research team led by the Institute for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology of the IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria di Negrar in collaboration with the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, among others, shows that the progressive warming creates ideal conditions for the spread of the Aedes albopictus, better known as Asian tiger mosquito.The director of the institute, Federico Gobbi, speaks of an increasing frequency of epidemics: "In the comin…