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                    <i>Aedes albopictus</i>, the Asian tiger mosquito, which can transmit the virus, is present from Florida to Connecticut and as far west as Illinois, said Laura Harrington, chair of Cornell University’s entomology department. It bites people as well as animals. A second species, <i>Aedes aegypti, </i>the yellow-fever mosquito, has a more limited geographic footprint and only bites people. But it is the p