Global & Disaster Medicine

Altered fungus can kill malaria-carrying anopheles mosquito

June 2nd, 2019

BBC

“A fungus – genetically enhanced to produce spider toxin – can rapidly kill huge numbers of the mosquitoes that spread malaria, a study suggests.

Trials, which took place in Burkina Faso, showed mosquito populations collapsed by 99% within 45 days.

The researchers say their aim is not to make the insects extinct but to help stop the spread of malaria…..”

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