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The Gates Foundation is trying to stop Zika by giving mosquitos a sexually transmitted disease
The approach releases bugs with a bacteria that would render them and their offspring unable to transmit disease. Ordinarily the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is in the business of stopping diseases rather than spreading them. When it comes to mosquitoes, though, the foundation is funding an approach that aims to spread a disease among mosquitoes that would prevent those bugs from spreading Zika and other diseases.
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I like this idea. Very sneaky indeed.