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Focus on Business: Steven Dobson on Mosquitos

WEKU | By 13Burkhart
Published May 1, 2018 at 3:24 PM EDT

Today is part two of Tom Martin's conversation with medical entomologist Steven Dobson. His company, MosquitoMate - a spinoff of University of Kentucky research - uses specially-bred, non-stinging male mosquitos to sterilize the wild, stinging female versions making life miserable in your backyard.
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