Novel technologies for addressing avian malaria in Hawai'i

摘要

Dengue, chikungunya, and now Zika, have captured the public's attention in the last year. These mosquito-borne diseases are making headlines around the world because of their potential to infect tens of millions of people. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation considers mosquitoes the world's most deadly animal, attributing an estimated 725,000 deaths annually to diseases vectored by mosquitoes (Gates 2016). While this issue is at the forefront of popular media, Hawai,i's native birds have been suffering from mosquito-borne diseases since the early 1900s (Walther 2016).