Mosquito hunters invent better, cheaper, DIY disease weapon
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 15:28
in Health & Medicine
Emory University researchers believe they have come up with the cheapest, most efficient way yet to monitor adult mosquitoes and the deadly diseases they carry, from malaria to West Nile Virus. Emory has filed a provisional patent on the Prokopack mosquito aspirator, but the inventors have provided simple instructions for how to make it in the Journal of Medical Entomology.