But Oxitec told AFP in a July 3 statement that its US work did not receive money from the philanthropy.
The spokesperson added that it is"scientifically impossible" for the company's mosquitos to carry malaria because it uses"only male Aedes aegypti to combat the female mosquito species, which carries dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever and yellow fever -- not malaria, which is"There is no interbreeding between species," the spokesperson said."And Oxitec mosquitoes are 100 percent male, meaning they do not carry diseases nor do they bite humans.
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