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📷 📷 Today we had our first casualty. Allison took a big tumble near the bottom of the Quilatoa trail. We left early in the morning to m...

📷Today we explored old Quito. First, we visited Basilica del Voto Nacional. Allison and I ventured to the top of one of the church’s spi...

📷 📷 More lab work and a big birthday celebration. We got our first results today. My mosquitoes numbered 801 and 802 were morphological...

📷 This is our last night of trapping. It could not have gone better. Yamile showed up again with all of her friends. Juan Jo and I got t...

It's day two of collection and It’s probably a good time to talk about the trap. The Host Decoy trap is designed to attract mosquitoes by...

Setting up the traps and securing the pig was harder than expected. We picked up the pig from the pigpen over the water and loaded it int...

📷 📷 We made great progress in our study today. Juan Jo is an absolute genius at talking to people and earning their trust. We found thr...

Today we presented our project to the Chamanga community. A group of about a dozen residents showed up to the meeting and listened to Fab...

Today was the first day in Ecuador. Breakfast was some unusual but delicious fruit and toast with coffee. Dr. Fabian Saenz picked us up f...