Mosquito solution: Bite them first

Australian researchers work on a way to infect them with a parasite that cuts their life span by more than half, minimizing the time the insects are able to spread disease. Old mosquitoes usually spread disease, so Australian researchers devised a natural way to make the pests die younger -- by breeding them to carry an insect parasite that causes earlier death.

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