mosquito borne diseases

Did you know that there over 3000 species of mosquitoes and only 6 per cent of them draw blood from humans?

"The vulnerability of the location and weak construction of the self-engineered shanties leaves thousands defenseless during monsoons. Government intervention has been minimal and these people don’t know how to protect themselves. I wanted to change that!” #Innovation #ImpactThatMatters #Mumbai

After discovering that it was not blood, but heat that attracted mosquitoes, scientists developed a heat blanket that mimicked the skin of humans or poultry.