Title:FIELD STUDIES ON BRITISH MOSQUITOES [Main Title]
Film Number:DED 194
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Summary: A film showing some of the work of Arbovirus Epidemiology Unit, MRE Porton (with cooperation of The Nature Conservancy).
Description: At the Morden Bog Nature Reserve in Dorset in 1967, members of the Unit study mosquito populations, for overseas use and also for British ecology. Four pathogen-free rabbits were released to detect the presence of viruses transmitted by biting insects; blood tested for viruses eight weeks later, suckling mice used to detect virus in rabbit blood.
