Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Hopkins Zika Virus Hackathon Yields Novel Ideas

In 2014, Johns Hopkins invited engineers, doctors, and one wedding-dress designer to get together to make a better anti-Ebola suit. Recently, theyassembled a similar group of creative thinkers to come up with ways to curb mosquito-borne diseases, such as Zika fever. 

The group — which included high-school students, Brazilian public health experts, and representatives from the Armed Forces Pest Management Board and the USDA, in addition to the standard engineers and scientists — produced several promising concepts.

Read more at Baltimore Fishbowl

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