Google's parent company, Alphabet, plans to release 32 million specially treated mosquitoes in California and Florida. This initiative aims to combat diseases like West Nile virus. The program uses male mosquitoes carrying a bacterium that prevents eggs from hatching. This method targets disease-carrying Culex mosquitoes. The phased rollout will span two years across both states.

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