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Google, Microsoft's new mission: How to kill disease-carrying mosquitoes

Majority of Zika cases reported in US so far are from travellers who contracted the virus elsewhere

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Disease-carrying Mosquitoes

Reuters 

medicine, drug, antibiotic, doctor, pharmaceuticals

American technology companies are bringing automation and robotics to the age-old task of battling mosquitoes in a bid to halt the spread of Zika and other mosquito-borne maladies worldwide.

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First Published: Thu, July 13 2017. 09:17 IST

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