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Re:Self-destructing mosquitoes and sterilized rodents: the p... by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @01:25PM (#20404174)
> We went through this with DDT. It worked; we killed all of the insects. [...] Then it stopped working due to resistance.

If it killed all the insects, resistance would not have developed.

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