Drones transporting sterilized male mosquitos, cybernetic dragonflies, genetically modified insects with malaria-resisting traits, supersensitive radars or digital maps: the most innovative methods are deployed in the war on the tiniest but most murderous beasts out there: mosquitos, fleas, ticks carrying infectious diseases. Heres the latest arsenal of digital technologies to eradicate insects and reduce deadly epidemics including mosquito-borne diseases.Unusual suspects: mosquitos, fleas, and ticksSharks, bears, tigers, the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog in association with sharp teeth and claws represent the traditional image of deadly animals. However, as it turns out, the bloodthirstiest creatures of the animal kingdom are small and for many of us, just annoyances accompanying summer vacations around lakes in the mountains: mosquitos.These tiny little insects literally little flies in Spanish kill 725,000 people every year by passing over devastating diseases caused by viruses or parasites. Their list of sins is rather long: malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever or encephalitis. The worst is malaria, which kills more than 600,000 people every year, while threatens half of the worlds population and causes billions of dollars in lost productivity annually. However, sandflies, triatomine bugs, black flies, ticks, tsetse flies, mites, snails or lice arent better either. According to UN figures, they are responsible for another 100,000 death per year; and together with the Mosquito Big Brother, they account for around 17 percent of all infectious diseases.There are more than 2,500 species of mosquito, and the little fly lives in every corner of the world except Antarctica. The penguins are the lucky ones, it seems. Moreover, some scientists claim that climate change might come with yet another unpleasant consequence: the boost of insect population numbers. Recent examples include the global spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus, in which case extreme climatic conditions during one month in several parts of South America in 2015 were followed by the spread of the disease to that location the next month.

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