HUMANKIND VS. MOSQUITOES - Laser ‘PHOTONIC FENCE’ to protect from Mosquitoes
Mankind’s greatest enemy is tiny, brown, and very hard to catch. But now researchers have developed a new weapon which they hope will finally give them the edge they need to defeat the aggressors. It’s a battle which has been raging for centuries – an army of blood – sucking creatures just six millimeters long on the attack against enormous opponents. A single bite from this insect can be lethal, and some 6, 00,000 people die every year as a result. The enemy is the malaria carrying Anopheles female mosquito, and the tropical disease it transmits is often fatal, especially in the developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Without treatment, malaria can kill in a matter of days. The only way to stay safe is to avoid being bitten. But the only means of achieving this are mosquito nets and insecticides. Both of these defenses can only be used indoors, and the aggressors quickly build up resistance to the chemicals. But we have now bright ray of hope from new invention by US research fu...
