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THE successful eradication of screw worm fly from Curaçao and from the southern United States has created a great interest in the possibility of insect eradication by release of sterile males1. Even where complete eradication cannot be achieved, the method can still be used for limiting the population density of harmful species to a level where it ceases to be of importance. If this can be done for a certain length of time in the case of vectors of diseases, it is possible that the disease-cycle may be completely interrupted and the disease itself eradicated.
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SAYEED QURAISHI, M., ARTHUR, M. Mating Behaviour of Anopheles Stephensi. Nature 197, 312–313 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197312b0
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