Dr. Herman Hon the Director of the SRRV Task Force reports that SRRV is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito which is the same species that transmits Urban Yellow Fever and Dengue Fever. Because of the wide distribution of Aedes aegypti and the involvement of birds there are many areas in adjacent states receptive to the establishment of a SRRV epidemic. He presented the most likely SRRV cycle.

SPRING, SUMMER, FALL

WILD BIRDS and CHICKENS are the primary hosts

AMPLIFICATION occurs by Aedes aegypti and by pecking among birds;

HUMAN HOSTS are infected when bitten by an Aedes aegypti carrying SRRV from a bird or from another human.

WINTER