Gisele Dias de Freitas

Gisele Dias de Freitas is the Director of the Division of Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases at the Epidemiological Surveillance Center (CVE) in Brazil. She has been actively addressing the increasing reports of scorpion encounters in urban areas, emphasizing that scorpions can thrive even in high-rise buildings and urban settings, contrary to common belief that they are primarily a rural issue.