12-20-2015, 09:17 PM
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Originally posted by eigoya
So, midnight rambler, is the theory that all infections began in Kona? That these aegypti mosquitos are not in Puna?
No, I'm certainly not saying that - Aedes albopictus also transmits dengue and is definitely present in Puna. And if you look at the way the points are distributed on the map, it's virtually certain that there is transmission going on in lower Puna, at least in HPP and probably elsewhere - new cases arise there regularly, in close proximity to other ones, whereas in upper Puna there are still only a few cases that were separated both in time and space.
I definitely don't want people to let their guard down unnecessarily! My point was just to point out that it's only a specific mosquito that transmits the disease, and while common, it's not ubiquitous.