according to nbcnews
Feds to Fund Plans to Take on Zika Virus With Drones
Feds to Fund Plans to Take on Zika Virus With Drones
Two groups that want to deploy drones to fight Zika won support from the federal government Wednesday.They funding will go to helping them develop drones that could drop off Zika-fighting mosquitoes or ferry lab samples from remote regions.They join a batch of inventive solutions for fighting Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases being funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
not to mention cnsnews
Gore Ties Global Warming to the Zika Virus
Gore Ties Global Warming to the Zika Virus
Former Vice President Al Gore, center, accompanied by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, right, speaks at a rally at Miami Dade College in Miami, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016.(Andrew Harnik/Associated Press)(CNSNews.com) - During a campaign rally for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in Miami, Fla., on Tuesday, former Vice President Al Gore warned of the dangers of global warming on mosquitos, specifically as it pertains to the Zika virus."These tropical diseases have spread so quickly, partly because of airline travel and the transportation revolution, but the changing climate conditions change the places where these tropical diseases become endemic and put down roots," Gore said.
as well nbcnews
Zika Virus Cases Soar in Asia, WHO Says
Zika Virus Cases Soar in Asia, WHO Says
Zika infections are expected to continue rising in the Asia-Pacific region, where authorities are increasing surveillance, preparing responses to complications and collaborating on information about the disease, the World Health Organization said Monday.Complicating the fight against the virus, spread by mosquitoes, is the lack of a "foolproof" approach to mosquito control, as shown by decades of efforts to contain dengue virus, WHO Director General Margaret Chan said in her address to a Western Pacific regional meeting of the world health body.In this Jan. 18, 2016, file photo, a female Aedes aegypti mosquito, known to be a carrier of the Zika virus, acquires a blood meal on the arm of a researcher at the Biomedical Sciences Institute of Sao Paulo University in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
furthermore teenvogue
Zika Virus Inspires Scientists to Discuss the Next Big Mosquito-Borne Illness
Zika Virus Inspires Scientists to Discuss the Next Big Mosquito-Borne Illness
This summer, Zika was among our top worries.As the disease spread rapidly first in Central and South America and then here in the U.S., everyone was stocking up on bug spray and swatting any buzzing insects nearby.Zika was not the first mosquito-borne illness to cause a panic, though, and scientists want us to know it won't be the last.
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