Researchers put the bite on mosquitoes

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Close-up of an Aedes aegypti female mosquito sucking blood from a mans arm. Only the female mosquitos bite. Credit: James Gathany Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta GA
Close-up of an Aedes aegypti female mosquito sucking blood from a man's arm. Only the female mosquitos bite. Credit: James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

Few things sting like a mosquito's bite--especially if that bite carries a disease such as malaria, yellow fever, Dengue fever or West Nile virus. But if researchers from The University of Arizona in Tucson have their way, one day mosquito bites may prove deadly to the mosquitoes as well.


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