A team of researchers including a University of Maryland entomologist has successfully turned the pesky mosquito's sex life into its downfall. By creating what amounts to a sexually transmitted disease specifically for mosquitoes, the scientists unveiled a potentially powerful new weapon in the global fight against malaria.
The problem before was that it was impossible to not “contain” it if it goes right (at least with the previous sterilisation approaches), because a certain area got rid of mosquitoes too quickly, therefore not spreading that infertility wide enough, and then they just moved in again from other areas.