This is reported by the Izvestia newspaper.
Alexander Lukashev, a leading researcher at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the Martsinovsky Institute, said that these species of insects have moved to Russia from Egypt and Southeast Asia due to global warming.
He emphasized that “this is a worldwide problem when carriers of tropical diseases, which should not appear in the north in principle, migrate to areas with suitable temperature conditions,” he said, “a similar picture is observed in Europe.”
“According to scientists, by 2050, these mosquitoes will spread even in Sweden. In our country, they multiplied in the south, and now they are moving to Central Russia, ”Lukashev added.
In October 2018, Rospotrebnadzor warned of an outbreak of West Nile fever in several European countries.