sterilize
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There are other methods to sterilize male mosquitoes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
We press that mash, sterilize it by heating, bottle it and ship it out.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Kluh’s district uses X-rays to sterilize males but there are other methods, such as using genetically modified insects or ones infected with bacteria.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026
Hospitals use it to sterilize medical devices, and some municipalities use low levels to treat public water supplies.
From Salon • Dec. 15, 2025
What Priddy needed was a blanket legal order that would authorize him to sterilize a woman on explicitly eugenic grounds; one such test case would set the standard for a thousand.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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