San Diego County’s Department of Environmental Health is scheduled to drop mosquito-fighting larvicide on 48 local waterways four more times this year, on Aug. 3, Aug. 24, Sept. 14, and Oct. 5.

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It is a master of stealth, stretching less than half an inch long and weighing in at 2.5 milligrams with as estimated air speed of 1 to 1.5 miles per hour. It is virtually soundless in flight, registering zero decibels from ten feet. Its tracking systems hone in on targets by detecting infrared radiation from warm bodies, chemicals such as carbon dioxide and lactic acid, body odors from as far as a hundred feet, as well as movement from fidgety hosts.

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Health officials have confirmed the first transmissions of the Zika virus by mosquitoes on the U.S. mainland. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week that four people have been infected in the Miami area, but no Zika-carrying mosquitoes have been found. CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden joins Hari Sreenivasan from Atlanta with more.

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