Djibouti is feeling a new buzz – mosquitoes fighting other mosquitoes – in their fight against malaria
The city introduced a strain of non-biting male Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes to combat vector-borne diseases like malaria. Scientists used self-limiting genes that had previously worked with Aedes aegypti (the Zika virus, dengue, and other vectors), creating genetically modified (GMO) mosquitoes.
According to Oxitec, a biotech company, its Friendly™ female mosquitoes are genetically…
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