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The method involves using low-dose X-rays to render male mosquitoes unable to reproduce. Male mosquitoes don't bite and won’t have contact with people or spread disease.

“Mosquitoes are so unique because of their public health significance,” Standlee said. “We think about them as only disseminating disease or causing heartworm, but the males of the species ...