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Opening up mosquito research labs to the community

  • Written by Brook Muller, Professor of Architecture and Environment, University of Oregon
View of Taichung City, Taiwan, behind a mosquito net. Alan Picard / Shutterstock.com

By bringing people close to disease-spreading insects, might we improve public health?

Because they spread malaria, Zika, West Nile, dengue, yellow fever and other diseases, mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths than any other organism. Some of these...

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