Scientists are taking the fight to the world’s most dangerous creature

A staff member shows a resident in Yogyakarta some of the different mosquito species caught in a mosquito monitoring trap

Around the world, mosquitoes are winning their war of attrition. With the help from a tiny bacterium, scientists are fighting back.

The battle between humans and mosquitoes has been raging for centuries. For as long as humans have existed, mosquitos have been there, right alongside us, making us sick.