Abstract:
Each year, mosquitoes wage a silent yet devastating war—in fecting nearly 700 million people and claiming more than a mil lion lives across the globe. The toll of mosquito-borne virus es such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika is staggering: over the past five decades, across 166 countries, they have exacted an economic burden of nearly $100 billion. Between 2013 and 2022 alone, these costs surged fourteen-fold escalating far faster than global investments in prevention and control [1].