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Lab-bred Mosquitoes Unleashed in Miami to Combat Virus-carrying Bugs

9-2-2018 < Blacklisted News 59 82 words
 

Thousands of male mosquitoes were released in South Miami’s Brewer Park Thursday.


They have been rendered sterile in a Kentucky lab by a company called MosquitoMate.


The mosquitoes were left incapable of impregnating females, after being infused with a Wolbachia bacteria.


The plan is over six months to release six million of the bugs that don’t bite, but have a healthy sex drive, and will mate with females whose eggs won’t hatch.


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