Jan. 18, 2016: In this photo, a researcher holds a container with female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo's University in Sau Paulo, Brazil. (AP)
NEW YORK – New York state's top prosecutor said on Wednesday his office has sent cease-and-desist letters to seven companies accused of deceptively marketing ineffective "Zika-protective" products amid growing concern over the mosquito-borne virus.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman also issued a consumer alert warning against the companies' advertisements, which are mainly for ultrasonic and botanical oil-based mosquito repellants. Those products "simply don't work," Schneiderman told a news conference.
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