Monday, September 26, 2016

Two chemicals together may knock out zika-carrying mosquitoes.

Aerial spraying of the insecticide naled, followed by a product that targets mosquitoes when they are in the larval stage, may be responsible for a sharp drop in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in a part of Miami where local transmission of the Zika virus was first found, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/two-chemicals-together-may-knock-out-zika-carrying-mosquitoes/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_HLTH_NEWS
Article courtesy of Scientific American by Helen Branswell

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