For the first time, thousands of live mosquitoes are being released in a Sacramento neighborhood to help prevent disease.
It’s a new program we first told you about last month that uses lab-grown insects with the intent of stopping invasive mosquitoes from spreading.
Officials from Sacramento’s mosquito control district opened containers with 15,000 live mosquitoes on Tuesday and set them free. The mosquitoes are raised in a Kentucky lab and treated with a bacteria that is harmless to humans but makes the insects unable to breed…