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Andrew Read and Matthew Thomas, Penn State entomologists, appear in this video, explaining methods of mosquito control, including one using a biological pesticide. Read and Thomas, along with ESA member Thomas Baker (Penn State) recently received a $100,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges Explorations Initiative, which focuses on novel approaches to prevent and treat infectious diseases, such as HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia and diarrheal diseases. The Penn State researchers plan to test a variety of naturally-occurring, insect-pathogenic fungi in order to find one which will impair the smelling ability of mosquitoes so that they can no longer find and attack humans.

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