JOHANNESBURG — As mosquitoes buzzed about on her veranda one recent evening, Maureen Coetzee didn’t reach for bug spray or a swatter. She dashed inside, grabbed a device resembling a drinking straw and sucked four mosquitoes into a specimen jar. She quickly identified them as Aedes aegypti, th...
Fighting Mosquitoes With Mosquitoes: Biological Weapons Target Zika Virus
Los Angeles Times, Raw Story: Science
Tue, 02/09/2016 - 8:47am
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