Week of Jan 10th – A tech-centric approach to reducing mosquito-borne diseases

“Debug is a tech-centric approach to the Sterile Insect Technique and involves rearing and releasing sterile male mosquitoes in order to drive down populations of wild Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the primary vector of dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever. The program uses a naturally occurring bacterium called Wolbachia to functionally sterilize Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, while cutting-edge software and hardware is deployed to grow and hatch millions of mosquitoes and then sort them by sex.” To discover more read below.