Busy Mosquitoes

  Our crowdfunding campaign is now live. We are launching this campaign to help kickstart our research on Zika virus. This project was picked up the World Health Organization last year, who has been helping us developing skills for a successful crowdfunding campaign for science projects on tropical infectious diseases in low-to-middle income countries. Infectious diseases are more important and visible than ever. There is still so much we don't know about infectious disease processes—take COVID comorbidities as an example. Although Zika virus infection is no longer the biggest disease on our minds, but it is still a major threat in 87 countries around the world. It can transmit from pregnant mother to her fetus, causing all sorts of neurological problems upon birth. At this moment, there is no drugs or vaccines to prevent this transmission, and we are here to fix it . Here’s what our project is looking to do. We are developing a model to study Zika mother-to-child tra