Google wants to release up to 32 million ‘good’ mosquitoes in California and Florida 

(KTLA) – When you think of Google “debugging” something, you probably think of software – not actual bugs. Yet the tech giant is seeking approval from the federal government to release up to 32 million mosquitoes in California and Florida as part of its “Debug” program. 

The little-known program aims to “stop bad bugs with good bugs” by releasing millions of sterile mosquitoes to eliminate those that carry disease.  

Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal in the world, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Out of the over 3,500 species of mosquitoes, one species alone, Aedes aegypti, carries dengue fever, Zika and chikungunya, which sicken hundreds of millions of people per year.

“They’re a difficult problem to solve,” Google Debug says on its project homepage, further explaining that most diseases carried by mosquitoes don’t have effective vaccines or treatments. “Attacking mosquitoes with pesticides is unsustainable because they’re becoming less effective over time and can be toxic, [and] clearing standing water is not enough because people can never find all the places that mosquitoes breed.” 

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