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Published online 10 July 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010712-5
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Unlucky bamboo
Asian mosquitoes stow away on plant shipment.
An aggressive, disease-transmitting Asian mosquito has hitchhiked into the United States in shipments of ornamental bamboo plants from Taiwan.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued an embargo on imports of fashionable 'lucky bamboo' (Dracaena), having discovered Asian tiger mosquitoes (Aedes albopictus) in Los Angeles harbour for the first time last month.
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