Wall Street Journal Examines Traditional, Innovative, Controversial Mosquito-Control Measures

Wall Street Journal: Fighting the ‘Cockroach of Mosquitoes’
“Experts working to halt the spread of the Zika, dengue, and chikungunya viruses face a stubborn foe in the main mosquito that transmits them, and some of the many methods under consideration for fighting them are stirring controversy. The Aedes aegypti mosquito primarily responsible for spreading these diseases has been called ‘the cockroach of mosquitoes’…” (McKay et al., 2/11).

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