Verily's plan to wipe out disease-causing mosquitoes succeeds in test sites

An experimental program by Google parent Alphabet's unit Verily to wipe out disease-causing mosquitoes succeeded in nearly eliminating them from three test sites in the US. Since 2017, millions of lab-bred Aedes aegypti male mosquitoes were released during mosquito season. Infected with a common bacterium Wolbachia, when these male mosquitoes mate with females, the offspring never hatch.