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anitil 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort

I believe now they use sterile mosquito larva to achieve the same now [0], though it's from a youtube video so I'm not sure how much to trust it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olj8arvfYj4

foxyv 6 months ago [–]

It's such a neat method because it is so inexpensive too. You take a bunch of mosquitos, irradiate them with just the right dose at the right time and then release them en-masse.

https://www.cdc.gov/mosquitoes/mosquito-control/irradiated-m....

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