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Anti-Malaria Plan Could Wipe Out Mosquitoes Without Insecticides

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A new way to fight malaria aims to eliminate the female mosquitoes that spread the deadly disease. Scientists have developed mosquitoes that produce almost exclusively male offspring. Females are the ones that bite. And they are the ones that produce more mosquitoes. The researchers say their technique could wipe out mosquito populations in a few months, without the use of insecticides. World’s biggest killers “Mosquitoes have been labeled as the most virulent animal in the...

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