Meet the Scientists Hunting Zika-Carrying Mosquitoes

The mosquito is historically one of the most deadly animals on the planet, spreading epidemics such Dengue, Malaria, and now Zika at alarming rates. In this episode of Symptomatic, Motherboard travels to the front lines of the fight to contain the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, the deadly carrier of diseases that have plagues humanity such as Dengue, Yellow Fever, Chikunguna, and now Zika. From a high tech firm in the UK working to genetically turn the mosquito on itself, to the people working day and night in Hou