It Was Already the Deadliest Animal in the World. Now the Most Dangerous Species Are Coming Deeper and Deeper Into America.
Illustration by Tolga Akdoğan Science How the Mosquito Is Conquering America The deadliest species of the world’s deadliest animal used to find it hard to survive in the United States. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. On an overcast Wednesday morning in Salt Lake City this summer, four bicyclists gathered in an industrial area not far from the city’s airport before fanning out across town.
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| Original publisher | Slate Magazine |
| Canonical URL | https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/mosquito-bugbite-insect-disease-america.html?via=rss |
| Publication time | Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:45:00 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-04T10:07:11.123Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-04T10:07:11.123Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | yct7WCjroKBg · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Illustration by Tolga Akdoğan Science How the Mosquito Is Conquering America The deadliest species of the world’s deadliest animal used to find it hard to survive in the United States. Now they’re here—and they’re thriving. By Marianne Dhenin Aug 04, 20265:45 AM if (new URL(location.href).searchParams.get("gift_token")) { let banner = '<div class="article__gift-banner" hidden><img height="38" width="38" class="article__gift-banner-icon" src="https://dot.cdnslate.com/static/media/sites/slate-com/reymojis/gift.6193980.png"/><span class="article__gift-banner-text"><strong>This article was gifted to you by a Slate Plus member! </strong>This access link expires on <span class="article__gift-banner-exp"></span>.</span></div>'; document.currentScript.insertAdjacentHTML("beforebegin", banner);…
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