Do Not Fear the Drones Air-Dropping 50,000 Mosquitoes From Above

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A pair of Aedes albopticus mosquitoes mating. These mosquitoes are very closely related to the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes used in the WeRobotics/IAEA trials, and both can carry Zika, yellow fever and dengue. The female is much larger. (Wikimedia Commons)
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On an early spring morning, a humming drone hovered over a small town in Bahia, Brazil. Three hundred feet above ground, a small canister clicked open, ejecting its contents into the mouth of the release mechanism below. For a moment, there was silence. Then, a swarm of mosquitoes, freshly awoken from icy slumber, stretched their wings and took flight. Tiếp tục đọc “Do Not Fear the Drones Air-Dropping 50,000 Mosquitoes From Above”