The lab at Sun Yat-Sen University-Michigan University Joint Center of Vector Control in Gaungzhou, China is over 37,700 square feet and has four workshops to raise the insects.
The lab raises millions of male mosquitoes for research that could potentially end the next strain of Zika.
At the lab, mosquitoes are poisoned with a strain of Wolbachia pipientis, a common bacterium shown to forbid Zika and similar viruses, such as dengue fever.
After the male mosquitoes are infected with the bacterium, researchers release the infected mosquitoes on nearby islands to mate with wild females who then obtain the bacterium, which will prevent the proper fertilization of her eggs.
The lab first started their Zika research last summer, and in April of this year they were established as the international front-runner in fighting mosquito-born viruses.
Source: Daily Mail
The team of researchers just recently released the first set of infected mosquitoes on Shazai island and is planning to release the next set on the Dadaosha Island in Panyu district.
Source: Daily Mail
