Drone Strikes Used Against New Terror Threat: Zika-Infested Mosquitos Sputnik
go to original March 1, 2016

Brazil applies cutting-edge technology to fight Zika virus (AP/Echodyne)

Local authorities in Brazil took severe measures to fight widespread Zika as they send drones to find and destroy the breeding grounds of the virus-transmitted Aedes aegypti mosquito that hit also dengue chikungunya viruses.

Brazil's most populated city Sao Paolo uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to define mosquito traces in gardens and terraces of shuttered houses and buildings.

An epidemic of birth defects linked to the Zika virus has been long worried by the federal government of Brazil which found investigating and fumigating effective to crush the virus.

Some 60 million residences and business centers have been projected for drones checking by the Brazilian government that enhanced its strategies to fight the mosquito-borne virus.

Despite 27.5 million of checked buildings, 60 percent of houses remain untouched and hard-to-get as people prevent troops and servants from entering their properties even being said it's a matter of security. So officials consider drones as useful tools to access such territories.

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