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Key takeaways
- Mosquitoes kill more people than every other animal combined.
- Sources: adapted from Kraemer et al. 2015 and Bhatt et al. 2013
- Most of these diseases don’t have effective vaccines or treatments.
Mosquitoes kill more people than every other animal combined. One species, Aedes aegypti, carries diseases such as dengue, Zika, yellow fever, and chikungunya which make hundreds of millions of people sick every year. And these diseases are spreading faster than ever.
Sources: adapted from Kraemer et al. 2015 and Bhatt et al. 2013
Most of these diseases don’t have effective vaccines or treatments. Attacking mosquitoes with pesticides is unsustainable because they're becoming less effective over time and can be toxic. Clearing standing water is not enough because people can never find all the places that mosquitoes breed. We need a new approach.
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