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Woodinville, Washington-based biotech company SpringStar received a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to commercialize a mosquito trap that directly combats the Zika virus.
The World Health Organization declared the Zika virus a public health emergency in January and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed it is a cause of microcephaly in April, meaning ways to combat the virus currently spreading around the world are needed now. In the U.S., there are 21…