Everybody wants to kill mosquitoes. But, in Singapore, they create mosquitoes and spread them in the millions to fly free in the country. The first thing on your mind is why are they doing this?

Mosquitoes aren’t just annoying, they are also deadly. Many female mosquitoes have dengue virus and just like malaria, you can get dengue from a mosquito bite. In severe cases, you could die.

Between 50 and 500 million people get dengue every year and 10 to 20 thousand people die from mosquito bites. So, if you want to eliminate dengue you must kill all the dengue mosquitoes everywhere.

But, they are hard to find and therefore, hard to kill. So, how do you stop mosquitoes?

A team of researchers in Singapore came up with an idea. They stop mosquitoes from having babies and that’s exactly what they did. They created a new type of mosquito that is so strong that it can go out there and find all the bad mosquitos and stop them from having babies.

So, apparently this is like a mosquito nursing room and there’s like hundreds of thousands, if not millions of mosquitos right here waiting to be released to the outside world.

This is as crazy as it sounds. This new mosquito doesn’t bite or hurt you at all. If this good mosquito falls in love with a bad mosquito, the bad mosquito will no longer be able to have kids. No new babies, no new mosquitoes.

So, Singapore created millions of these good mosquitos and put them in a mosquito gun and blasted them to neighborhoods, to rooftops, to gardens, everywhere. The good mosquitos make it with the bad ones and they could no longer reproduce.

In no time, all mosquitoes good and bad will die naturally without having any kids. This is literally how Singapore is fighting the dengue virus. Dengue mosquitoes dropped significantly by more than 90 percent and saved many residents from the virus threat.

This ingenious method is such a success, that they are opening a mosquito Factory in Singapore just to fight dengue. This factory is so advanced, it can create tens of thousands of good mosquitos every single day.

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