Home Science Putting female mosquitoes on human diet drugs could reduce spread of disease

Putting female mosquitoes on human diet drugs could reduce spread of disease

77

Researchers report that they have identified drugs that can reduce mosquito hunger for blood. Because movement of female mosquitoes from human to human — male mosquitoes do not consume blood — is the means by which mosquito-borne infections are passed along, researchers have theorized that reducing the frequency with which female mosquitoes feed is one way to lessen the spread of disease.