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Brazil’s Disease-Fighting Mosquitoes

Published by New York Times World By Apoorva Mandavilli, Leila Medina, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, Joey Sendaydiego and Tuna Mayer · 13 August 2026 at 17:58
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Our reporter, Apoorva Mandavilli, goes inside a mosquito factory in Brazil, where scientists are producing millions of mosquitoes to fight deadly tropical diseases in a warming world.

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