Zika fight: Bacteria-laden mosquitoes unleashed in Florida to combat virus stat : Fox News

"People come to the Keys to fish, to boat, to be outside," said Florida Keys Mosquito Control Commissioner Jill Cranney-Gage. "There's 1,000 male aedis agypti mosquitos in this tube," says Catherine Pruszynski, field officer for the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District. The Florida Keys are flying in 40,000 mosquitos a week, to take their own buzzing vacations, of sorts. The male mosquitos in the tubes come from Kentucky's MosquitoMate laboratory, which has partnered with the University of Kentucky. Pruszynski is packing 20 of these tubes in her bag, all full of male mosquitos.




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Everyone loves the early warm spring weather, but it comes with a price: an early mosquito season. The Williamsburg Mosquito Control Program also lists ten things that people can do to reduce mosquito habitats at its website. "Everyone has a role to play when it comes to preventing Zika virus and the potential spread of Zika in their community," said McAuliffe in the news release. And with it, early precautions against the mosquito-borne Zika virus. The Zika virus poses the biggest risks to pregnant women and their unborn babies.


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