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The mosquito can transmit a number of fatal infections, including malaria, dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, Zika, West Nile and EEE. Each year, diseases resulting from a mosquito bite cause at ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is taking steps to protect people from mosquito-borne viruses. A helicopter will be flying over the ...

A video of a helicopter releasing blue smoke over a ... opens new tab with a self-limiting gene to combat mosquito-linked diseases and has a grant from the Gates Foundation. Grey Frandsen, chief ...

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However, the paper points out that 700,000 people die each year from mosquito bites — we didn’t verify that, but according to the article that’s twice the number of people murdered each year.