If you can imagine very, very fine injection needles injecting a tiny volume of liquid that contains the Wolbachia bacterium into a mosquito egg.

Cam Simmons

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Once Wolbachia is established in a mosquito population it stays there. It's a one-and-done application, it's not something you have to go back and do every year or every two or three weeks like some of the GMO options.

It's about resources, this is a nonprofit effort and there's only so much we can do right now. Obviously with the Zika emergency, there's more attention on mosquito-borne diseases, and hopefully that will change.