Six years ago, five NC State Professors from three different departments collaborated over a shared vision: to design products that lower the risk of disease and death from mosquitos, and increase crop yields for farmers while lowering water usage—all without using any chemicals or pesticides.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mosquito bites cause more deaths to humans—more than one million per year —than any other organism on the planet. Malaria accounts for the majority of those deaths, with children under 5 comprising the majority of deaths by malaria.
