Google Mosquitoes Debugging Florida I was excited to learn recently that Google has plans to debug Florida and California by releasing millions of “good bugs”—male mosquitos (which can’t bite or spread disease) that “have a naturally-occurring bacteria called Wolbachia which makes them unable to have offspring with wild female mosquitoes.” It’s an intervention with demonstrable efficacy from past trials, including one in Singapore which reduced dengue spread by up to 77%. (The current proposal..

Google Mosquitoes
Richard Y Chappell
