Inside Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control is a group of unusual “residents” — carefully kept under constant temperature and humidity control.
At the CDC’s Vector Laboratory, more than 150,000 specimens have been collected from across Taiwan over the past six decades.
The collection includes mosquitoes, rats, cockroaches, flies, ticks, and mites — some dating back to 1965.
Health officials say the specimens were gathered by generations of disease prevention experts, including pioneers known as Taiwan’s “mosquito doctors,” who traveled throughout the island to document outbreaks and trace disease sources.
A five-member team cares daily for between 5,000 and 8,000 adult mosquitoes, along with nearly 10,000 larvae — all to provide scientific evidence and support for Taiwan’s disease prevention efforts.
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