Google's parent company Alphabet is seeking federal approval to release 32 million specially treated mosquitoes across California and Florida over the next two years—as part of a bid to reduce the spread of mosquito-borne diseases including West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis.

La compañía busca la aprobación para poner en marcha una ambiciosa estrategia científica que genera tanto apoyo como preocupación entre expertos y residentes.

The federal government, beholden as ever to the private interests that run it, is poised to give its blessing.

Mosquitoes kill more people than any other creature in the world