The current wild population of 23,000 has declined by about 50 per cent over the past two decades.
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The wild population now stands at 1,000.
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Gene drives are deployed by genetically modified mosquitoes that are then released to breed with the wild population.
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Treatment has been ruled out, as it requires a sixmonth course of antibiotics, which would be impossible to administer to a wild population.
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Now, any farmed genes in the wild population look set to disappear.
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