UNIOSUN secures $60,000 grant for mosquito research

Osun State University, UNIOSUN, has secured a US$60,000 probe assistance from the US Naval Medical Research Unit 3 (NAMRU-3) to enactment mosquito surveillance and probe activities successful selected states crossed Nigeria.

The university’s Public Relations Officer, Ademola Adesoji, who disclosed this successful a connection connected Tuesday, said the assistance was won by Dr Dapo Adeogun of the Department of Animal and Environmental Biology.

Adesoji said Adeogun secured the assistance with enactment from different vector experts successful the department, adding that the task would absorption connected strengthening mosquito surveillance crossed participating locations.

According to the statement, “the probe would make technological information to enactment efforts aimed astatine controlling vector-borne diseases successful Nigeria.”

The assemblage said the task would lend to a amended knowing of mosquito populations and supply information that could assistance nationalist wellness efforts targeting diseases transmitted by vectors.

The connection said the Vice-Chancellor of UNIOSUN, Professor Odunayo Clement Adebooye, co...