The government has started breeding sterile tsetse flies in a move aimed at wiping out disease-causing ones.
The new technology dubbed Sterile Insect Technic, will see entomologists collect an estimated 50,000 tsetse flies in various districts and have their germ cells killed before releasing them into the wilderness to mix with normal tsetse flies to end their era.
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