MELAKA: The state governments' move to combat dengue by releasing sterile mosquitoes into the wild proved impotent as dengue cases here have soared to worrying levels.
In July, some 16,000 sterile mosquitoes were released at Kota Laksamana, here, in an aim to wipe out the population of the Aedes Aegypti species.
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