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Biotech firm Oxitec launches controversial field test of its insects in Florida after years of push-back from residents and regulatory complications.

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The experiment, launched this week in the Florida Keys — over the objections of some local critics — tests a method for suppressing populations of wild Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which can carry diseases such as Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever.
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