Researchers target world’s deadliest animal – the mosquito

Researchers target world’s deadliest animal – the mosquito

The mosquito might be small, but it’s actually the world’s deadliest animal, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Mosquitoes transmit diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of people a year worldwide, but now, they are the target.The Florida Keys alone are home to dozens of mosquito species. Now researchers there are targeting just the aedes aegypti. Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are the ones that vector the diseases we …