It'll never fly

摘要

With Zika virus now spreading in Miami, you would think citizens of the nearby Florida Keys would welcome all efforts to control the insects that carry it. Yet a battle is building between officials and the public. At issue is a trial release of sterile males of the Aedes aegypti mosquito - the primary carrier of Zika - on Key Haven. Known as the sterile insect technique, this is a proven way to stem outbreaks of disease. Females that mate with these males produce no offspring, so the population drops. Tsetse and Mediterranean fruit flies have already been targeted.