There may be technical obstacles

I think the big obstacle is scaling up. The company did a trial of sterile mosquitos in Brazil. Their test plot was 200 acres. A neighborhood of about 1/3 square mile. For this they used batches of 250,000 treated larvae. I know these babies are tiny but for large scale they are going to need to be able to raise trillions of mosquitoes

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Novel Sterile Insect Technology (SIT) program results in suppression of a field mosquito population and subsequently to reduced incidence of dengue

Lisiane Castro Poncio1, Filipe Apolinário dos Anjos1, Deborah A de Oliveira1, Débora Rebechi1, Rodrigo Neves de Oliveira1, Rodrigo Faitta Chitolina1, Marise Lopes Fermino1,2, Luciano G Bernardes3, Danton Guimarães4, Pedro A Lemos5, Marcelo N E Silva6, Rodrigo G M Silvestre7,8, Emerson Soares Bernardes1,9, Nitzan Paldi.  Forrest Brasil Tecnologia Ltda, Araucaria, PR, Brazil

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