What do we really know about mosquitoes? Fredros Okumu catches and studies these disease-carrying insects for a living -- with the hope of crashing their populations. Join Okumu for a tour of the frontlines of mosquito research, as he details some of the unconventional methods his team at the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania have developed to target what has been described as the most dangerous animal on earth.

Fredros Okumu: Why I study the most dangerous animal on earth -- mosquitoes

Why I study the most dangerous animal on earth -- mosquitoes

Mosquitoes, dubbed the most dangerous animals, transmit diseases like malaria, killing thousands, especially African children.

Innovative strategies, including breeding water traps and CRISPR gene editing, offer hope for eradicating malaria-carrying mosquitoes.

Harnessing mosquitoes' own behaviors against them, like exploiting swarm patterns, could be key to controlling their populations.