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... fresh waters of North America. (For characters distinguishing these from the malaria mosquitoes, see Anopheles, above.) The yellow-fever mosquito is now placed in another genus, Stegomyia.

... human volunteers under controlled experimental conditions to prove this conclusively. In 1901 they published their findings that yellow fever was caused by a virus borne by the Stegomyia fasciata. Mosquito (later designated as Aëdes aegypti. ).BibliographySee studies by H. A. Kelly (3d ed. 1923), A. E. Truby (1943), and L. N. Wood (1943).