Brazil Employs Cyber Mosquitoes in Zika Awareness Campaign
- Campaign urges women to discuss pregnancy with doctors
- Government will collaborate with U.S., global labs on vaccine
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Open the Brazilian government’s main website and you’ll see mosquitoes swarming across the top banner. If you catch one with a fly swatter that appears, a link pops up to the Health Ministry’s anti-Zika campaign page.
The push to increase public awareness is part of the government’s latest drive to involve not only government workers and the armed forces but society at large in the campaign to eradicate breeding grounds for the disease-carrying mosquito. “Killing mosquitoes isn’t enough. We can’t allow them to be born,” reads one of the banners on the government website.