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"In Louisiana, we use these products quite frequently to reduce mosquitos, but we don't see many nontarget effects, because the doses are really small," said Dr Kirsten Healy, a public health entomologist at Louisiana State University.
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The company used to regularly fog the plant site with chemicals to reduce mosquito numbers, but stopped last year due to financial problems.
But the latest findings added urgency to a campaign beginning next month in New York City to kill mosquito larvae and reduce mosquito breeding sites, and they raised the possibility the city might return to widespread aerial pesticide spraying this summer.
Steve Levy, the Suffolk County executive, and county health and environmental officials say that the open-marsh approach will reduce mosquitoes by providing habitat for larvae-eating fish in wetlands where mosquitoes breed.
But studies in the lab and in the field have shown that use of the paint can reduce mosquito populations over long periods of time much more effectively than traditional pesticide application methods.
Here, we use meta-analysis to show that, overall, malaria parasites do reduce mosquito survival.
A company called Oxitec, for instance, has produced mosquitoes that carry a lethal gene that kills offspring in early development, which can drastically reduce mosquito populations.
Countries and communities can try to reduce mosquito populations by removing the small water reservoirs such as flower pots, empty bottles, and discarded tires in which Aedes mosquitoes like to breed.
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