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Human Diet Drugs Kill Mosquitoes' Appetite, Too

Feb 16, 2019 · 3 min
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When researchers fed mosquitoes a drug used to treat people for obesity, the insects were less interested in hunting for their next human meal ticket. Karen Hopkin reports.

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