Once you've got the mosquito in your area, anyone coming into that area with dengue, mosquito will bite them, mosquito will bite somewhere else, somewhere else, somewhere else, and you'll get an epidemic.

We got, later, the mosquito netting.

Minnesota's state bird is the mosquito.

I was bitten by a mosquito.

There you are. We've sent mosquito eggs.

I got a lot of mosquito bites.

They control mosquito larvae, among other things.

What can we do to the mosquito?

I just got bitten by a mosquito.

This kind of genetically altered mosquito can help control the transmission of mosquito borne infectious diseases such as Zika, Dengue fever and Chikungunya fever.

They might be able to buy mosquito nets.

So for the mosquito, it's a dead end.

NM That's a mosquito wing beat you're hearing.

Now, malaria's transmitted by a mosquito, and normally if you're infected with malaria, and you're feeling sick, it makes it even easier for the mosquito to bite you.

But of course the most dangerous animal is the mosquito.

It's only the female mosquito that will actually bite you.

This is a high speed camera view of a mosquito.

And the mosquito has killed more humans than wars and plague.

So we've got that. You could call it a mosquito factory.

Well, they decided to mosquito proof every house in Northern Alabama.

To communicable diseases, it might be health clinics or mosquito nets.

They feed on other little things. They feed on mosquito larvae.

If you mosquito proof houses, when people get sick, they're sitting in bed or in mosquito proof hospitals, they're sitting in a hospital bed and the mosquitoes can't get to them.

And let's assume you're bitten by a mosquito that's carrying that virus.

There's no point in just killing the odd mosquito here and there.

The mosquito has killed more humans than any other creature in human history.

In fact, probably adding them all together, the mosquito has killed more humans.

Well we clearly need something that is effective at reducing the mosquito population.

And the asterisks represent the time at which the mosquito proofing was complete.

In the case of malaria, what we'd like to do is mosquito proof houses.

So the one thing you'll find is that where the mosquito goes, dengue will follow.

I've got mosquito bites and they really itch. Do you have any medicine for it?

Vector control for malaria and other mosquito borne diseases Report of a WHO Study Group.

It doesn't really matter. It's the same mosquito, and it's the same disease. You're at risk.

However the first thing that I needed was mosquito repellent typography because they were definitely around heavily.

But DDT sprayed on local homes, there's nothing better to eliminate malaria, besides insect DDT impregnated mosquito nets.

So, if you're a harmful variant in a place where you've got mosquito proof housing, then you're a loser.

If there's a male mosquito that you release, and if there's a female around, that male will find the female.

So, if you were to mosquito proof houses, you should be able to get these organisms to evolve to mildness.

The report also noted that, however, this did not mean this kind of mosquito can be used for commercial purpose.

Now this is a mosquito that came, like its name suggests, out of North Africa, and it's spread round the world.

Now, in fact, a single mosquito will only travel about 200 yards in its entire life. They don't travel very far.

And so what you can see is that just the mosquito proofed housing, and nothing else, caused the eradication of malaria.

As of August 10, 66 countries and regions have reported the evidence of the mosquito borne Zika virus transmission since 2015.

Here, we're trying to visualize the airflow around the wings of the mosquito with little particles we're illuminating with a laser.