Scientists Focus On Helping The World Fight Mosquito-borne Diseases

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Scientists Focus On Helping The World Fight Mosquito-borne Diseases

By Abigail Klein Leichman The world’s deadliest animal isn’t a shark, tiger or even a poisonous snake. It’s the female mosquito. When this pesky insect sucks your blood to help her lay her eggs, she can infect you with potentially fatal diseases including malaria, dengue, Zika and West Nile viruses, lymphatic filariasis (LF) and more. More than one million people […]

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