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by throwanem 2211 days ago
I really had no idea the sterile-insect technique worked so well! One wonders, as was chewed over in a thread a few days ago, why it isn't already being used at scale to destroy invasive populations of malaria-bearing mosquitoes in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Maybe mosquitos mate more than once, making this type of program much less effective.