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Thomas Lane Bancroft

Australian naturalist

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  • Aedes aegypti mosquito
    In dengue: Dengue through history

    …the early 1900s Australian naturalist Thomas Lane Bancroft identified Aedes aegypti as a carrier of dengue fever and deduced that dengue was caused by an organism other than a bacterium or parasite. During World War II, dengue emerged in Southeast Asia and rapidly spread to other parts of the world,…

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