Virus Research
The Trinidad Regional Virus Lab (TRVL) (now CAREC) conducted research on arboviruses there in past decades. One portion of the swamp, the Bush Bush Wildlife Sanctuary is historically important as a field site for the Trinidad Regional Virus Laboratory - now part of the Caribbean Epidemiology Center (Carec), which played a key role in the study of tropical mosquito-borne diseases.
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