While Brazil Was Eradicating Zika Mosquitoes, America Made Them Into Weapons | Atlas Obscura

While Brazil Was Eradicating Zika Mosquitoes, America Made Them Into Weapons | Atlas Obscura

 

While Brazil Was Eradicating Zika Mosquitoes, America Made Them Into Weapons

Most of the Western hemisphere was trying to eliminate Aedes aegypti. Why not the U.S.?

by Sarah Laskow

 

An Aedes aegypti mosquito. (Photo: Illinois Natural History Survey Division/Public domain)