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.

Cam Simmons

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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.

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