Two groups that want to deploy drones to fight Zika won support from the federal government Wednesday.
The funding will go to helping them develop drones that could drop off Zika-fighting mosquitoes or ferry lab samples from remote regions.
They join a batch of inventive solutions for fighting Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases being funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) …
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/zika-virus-outbreak/feds-fund-plans-take-zika-virus-drones-n665241
NBC News | Oct. 12, 2016