Thanks to many years of scientific effort and motivated by a desire to make vector-borne disease a minor public health problem, entomologists an chemists have assembled the longest list of potential new methods for vector control since the 1940s. The field is working on sugar-based baits, mass release of sterile males and genetically modified mosquitoes, long lasting larvicides, very long lasting indoor residual sprays, advanced application of aerial pesticides, completely new active ingredients, and the list goes on. These interventions potentially give us the ability to manage insecticide resistance, integrate methods rationally across the life histories of vectors and the pathogens they transmit, and save money through careful targeting. This progress is threatened by small markets that discourage development and by global regulatory pathways that undervalue their contributions. There has been great progress...the next step is to apply it to defeating vector-borne diseases.

Products for global vector control: putting the rational into biorational

254th National Meeting (2017)

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