Trial wipes out over 80% of Australian disease-spreading mosquito

Re:Trial wipes out over 80% of Australian disease-spreading ... by cbhl on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @05:03PM (#17502126)

Verily has also been releasing these sterile mosquitoes in Fresno since 2016:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/18/heres-the-real-buzz-g...

https://blog.verily.com/2017/07/debug-fresno-our-first-us-fi...

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Re:Trial wipes out over 80% of Australian disease-spreading ... by rurban on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @04:36AM (#17505354)

The Fresno result was a 68% reduction, also promising. https://blog.verily.com/2017/11/wrapping-up-debug-fresno-201... Better than the Chinese results on a more massive scale in Guangshou with about 50% reduction. I'd also like to see the Brazil and Vietnam results. https://www.worldmosquitoprogram.org/

Wonder why Australia had 12% better results? The sheer size of the experiment there? Australia was much bigger than Fresno, with only 300 acres there.

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