Geronimo Alencar

Dr. Geronimo Alencar is a prominent researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Brazil, specializing in entomology and vector-borne diseases. He has recently been in the news for his warnings about the alarming trend of mosquitoes in the Atlantic Forest shifting their feeding preference to human blood, which raises concerns about the increased transmission of deadly viral diseases such as yellow fever, dengue, Zika, and chikungunya.