INDUSTRIALIZED ZIKA DEVELOPMENT? —“By 1960, the Chemical Corps was producing 5

INDUSTRIALIZED ZIKA DEVELOPMENT?

—“By 1960, the Chemical Corps was producing 500,000 A. aegypti every month, rearing them on sugar water and blood and letting them lay their eggs on paper towels. Scientists had found they could infect a new generation of mosquitoes with yellow fever by mixing the virus in the solution in which the mosquito eggs grew. Hundreds of thousands of mosquitoes were not enough to start a real epidemic, though. The corps proposed constructing a facility in Arkansas that could produce 100 million A. aegypti mosquitoes each week.”—