Yellow Fever Mosquito gets a full meal — James Gathany/CDC
❝ Rising global temperatures could put half a billion more people at risk for tropical mosquito-borne diseases like chikungunya, dengue, yellow fever, and Zika by 2050, according to a new study.
❝ While a growing body of recent research warns the human-caused climate crisis will cause general worldwide “environmental breakdown,” a study published…in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases focuses specifically on a related public health threat: how a hotter world will enable disease-carrying mosquitoes to reach more people…
❝ “Plain and simple, climate change is going to kill a lot of people,” coauthor Colin Carlson of Georgetown told Nexus Media News. “Mosquito-borne diseases are going to be a big way that happens, especially as they spread from the tropics to temperate countries.”
Lead author Ryan emphasized that public health experts should be preparing now for the outbreaks predicted to occur in new places over the next few decades.
Or we could leave responsibility in the hands of Trump-chumps, anti-vaxxers and the Republican Party. They’ll blame it all on weak walls, furriners and G_D’s WILL.
Eideard 
In January scientists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and colleagues in Boston, Seattle and St. Louis were given an audacious goal to develop — in 90 days — a protective antibody-based treatment that potentially will stop the spread of the Zika virus.
They finished 12 days early thanks to a combination of technology, ceaseless communication and teamwork.
The successful “sprint” was part of the Pandemic Protection Platform program launched last year by the Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense. The goal is to prepare and deploy protective antibody treatments to squelch dangerous viral outbreaks threatening public health and national security — anywhere. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/vumc-vrt040419.php
DARPA Pandemic Prevention Platform (P3) https://www.darpa.mil/program/pandemic-prevention-platform See also https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/HR001117S0019%20FAQ%20V3.pdf
A Pivotal Mosquito Experiment Could Not Have Gone Better : Wolbachia carrying mosquitoes block dengue transmission https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-pivotal-mosquito-experiment-could-not-have-gone-better/ar-AAKU3Om
An alternative approach: First genetically modified mosquitoes released in the United States https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01186-6
Mosquitoes carrying a virus that causes paralysis and death are swarming at least 6 states https://www.insider.com/states-reporting-west-nile-virus-mosquitoes-paralysis-2021-7