Sterile mosquitoes to fight malaria

By Thiam Ndiaga
Updated September 18 2019 - 7:43pm, first published 7:41pm
Scientists are releasing genetically-altered mosquitoes in Burkina Faso to control malaria.
Scientists are releasing genetically-altered mosquitoes in Burkina Faso to control malaria.

Scientists in Burkina Faso have deployed a new weapon in the fight against malaria, and waded into a thorny bio-ethics debate, by letting loose thousands of genetically sterilised mosquitoes.

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