by Muhammad Abuzar
There you are enjoying your summer day and then unexpectedly you feel an itch. You look down and notice you have a red spot on your arm that you can't help but to scratch over and over again. Mosquito bites, who doesn't hate these pesky annoyances? A technology reporter at BBC, named Chris Foxx, explains that with technological and scientific advancements, more methods to control the mosquito population are being developed. According to his Nov. 21 post, one method is "drones that will scatter swarms of sterile mosquitoes over wide areas to help stop the spread of diseases such as malaria." These sterile male mosquitoes are unable to reproduce, therefore the mosquito population will decline in whatever area they are released. Another disease that will be reduced with the decline of mosquitoes is Zika fever, which has greatly spread in third world countries such as Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, and India. "The drones are still in development, but the non-profit company [WeRobotics] hopes to trial its technology in Latin America in 2018."
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http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42066518
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