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Genetically modified mosquitoes could soon be released in the Florida Keys to combat Zika.
轉基因蚊子可能很快在佛羅里達群島釋放以對抗寨卡。
NPR reports that county residents approved a measure to allow the company Oxitec to let the bugs loose,but some residents aren't sold.
NPR報道，縣居民批準一項法案允許Oxitec公司釋放蚊子，但有些居民不買賬。
When the modified male pests mate with regular female mosquitoes, their offspring die. That reduces the mosquito population. Oxitec's trials in Brazil and a few other countries reported massive success.
當改良的雄性蚊子與普通雌蚊交配時，它們的后代將死亡，從而減少蚊子的數量。據報道在巴西和一些其它國家，Oxitec的試驗獲得巨大成功。
Some residents worry the modified mosquitoes aren't safe. And while Zika is in Florida, there haven't been any locally transmitted cases in the Keys.
一些居民擔心改良的蚊子不安全。雖然佛羅里達州發現過塞卡，但群島沒有任何本地傳播病例。
Still, officials in the area have given the go-ahead to try the bugs out in some parts of the Keys.
不過，該地區的官員已經在佛羅里達群島一些地方嘗試釋放蚊子。
A Key West commissioner said a big part of her job "is to kill mosquitoes and to protect the residents and the county."
基韋斯特的一名專員表示，她工作的很大部分是“殺死蚊子，并保護居民和縣區”。
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