Summary

South Africa's malaria elimination teams could soon have backup from millions of decoy mosquitoes specially bred at Africa's first mosquito factory. These insects are part of South Africa's pioneering Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), developed through a joint partnership between the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) and Wits University. NICD scientists have worked for a decade to rear and sterilize male swarms of Anopheles arabiensis to overwhelm the wild population.

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