Breaking the Cycle
TO REACH THE SPECIAL MOSQUITOES, an Army researcher like Gray Heppner must walk through seven heavy doors off a corridor at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring. The mosquitoes, called Anopheles gambiae , are behind that last door, in meshed cartons. They don't fly much in their confined space and appear quite benign in this room where everything feels unremarkable, even the high heat and humidity, which are meant to mimic the sweltering environs in which the anopheles thrives....-
