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Why Google’s Sister Company Is Going To Release 20 Million Mosquitoes In The USA

Why Google’s Sister Company Is Going To Release 20 Million Mosquitoes In The USA
It is believed to be one of the most common pathogens in the world that can change the reproductive systems of insects.
It is said to infect up to 76 per cent of the the insects that have been studied and these same studies have shown that when male mosquitoes are infected they become sterile.
The project hopes to release millions of sterile male mosquitoes into Fresno so that they can mate with other female mosquitoes thus making them all sterile and dramatically reducing the number of disease-transmitting mosquitoes out there.

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