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Center for Vector Biology & Zoonotic Diseases (CVBZD)

Center for Vector Biology & Zoonotic Diseases (CVBZD)

The Center for Vector Biology & Zoonotic Diseases was created in 2009 by combining the Departments of Entomology and Environmental Sciences. It brings together the work of our staff who study insects and other arthropods that affect human and animal health, as well as the diseases they spread in Connecticut and the northeastern United States. The Center’s mission is to better understand how these diseases spread in the environment and to develop better ways to track and control them.

Current projects at the Center include:

•Studying how mosquitoes, ticks, and bedbugs live and how to control them

 

• Researching how mosquito‑ and tick‑borne diseases spread in our region, including:
– Eastern equine encephalitis
– Human babesiosis
– Ehrlichiosis
– Granulocytic anaplasmosis
– Lyme disease
– West Nile virus

• Running the state‑wide Mosquito and Arbovirus Surveillance Program, which tracks eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile virus

• Testing ticks for the bacteria that cause Lyme disease

 

The Center has several laboratories, insect‑growing rooms, and a high‑security Biosafety Level 3 facility on its main campus in New Haven. There are also additional facilities at the Station’s 75‑acre research farm, Lockwood Farm in Hamden, and at the Griswold Research Center in Griswold.

The Center receives most of its funding from the State of Connecticut and federal Hatch funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Additional research and monitoring work is supported by grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the USDA Agricultural Research Service, and the Northeastern Mosquito Control Association.

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The Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases (NEVBD)
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January 10, 2017--The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Receives Major Award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for Establishment of a “Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases” in partnership with Cornell University, Columbia University, and the New York State Department of Health

Mosquito Arbovirus Research and Surveillance Program Description 

Research/Surveillance Programs
Staff

 

For more information, please contact Dr. Philip Armstrong at Philip.Armstrong@ct.gov