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K-State biologist hopes mosquito can break viral chain

Most people do their best to avoid mosquitoes. But this summer Kansas State University Professor Rollie Clem will play the wary host to his own homegrown swarm of Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito. He's made a room ready for them, and even a menu.

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