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Introduction	Jon Day’s fascination with insects of all sorts started as youngster in Boston, MA. “My mother was often horrified by what I’d bring into the house,” he says. He earned a B.S. in Environmental Science at Lyndon State College, a Masters degree in Ecology at The State University of New York at Fredonia; and a Ph.D. in Medical Entomology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He has been a professor of medical entomology at the University of Florida since 1998. He is one of the nation’s leading experts on the natural history, epidemiology, and ecology of mosquito-borne viruses found in North America. These include St. Louis encephalitis, eastern equine encephalitis, and West Nile viruses. Dr. Day and his colleagues have created “risk maps” to track mosquito-borne virus transmission in Florida. These risk maps are updated as the mosquito-borne virus situation in Florida changes and the maps can be viewed at http://eis.ifas.ufl.edu. These maps are used extensively by public health and other officials as they deal with vector-borne disease transmission in Florida.

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Introduction

Jon Day’s fascination with insects of all sorts started as youngster in Boston, MA. “My mother was often horrified by what I’d bring into the house,” he says. He earned a B.S. in Environmental Science at Lyndon State College, a Masters degree in Ecology at The State University of New York at Fredonia; and a Ph.D. in Medical Entomology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He has been a professor of medical entomology at the University of Florida since 1998. He is one of the nation’s leading experts on the natural history, epidemiology, and ecology of mosquito-borne viruses found in North America. These include St. Louis encephalitis, eastern equine encephalitis, and West Nile viruses. Dr. Day and his colleagues have created “risk maps” to track mosquito-borne virus transmission in Florida. These risk maps are updated as the mosquito-borne virus situation in Florida changes and the maps can be viewed at http://eis.ifas.ufl.edu. These maps are used extensively by public health and other officials as they deal with vector-borne disease transmission in Florida.