Simple device shows promise for slapping down mosquito-borne diseases

“That’s just about as good as mosquito control gets.”

Aedes aegypti are predominantly found in houses and are one of the few mosquito species to specifically feed off humans.

Control measures in many of the countries where they cause outbreaks of disease involve either blanket spraying of insecticide in public or going to people’s houses individually, which was not efficient, Professor Devine said.

“The main issue we have at the moment is we don’t have any vaccines [for these diseases] and we don’t have any therapeutants,” he said.

“The only thing we can do is control the mosquito populations, but the current measures are unwieldy and in the case of coming to people’s…