The modified species, codenames OX5034, is made up entirely of male mosquitos. The modifications were made to males from the Aedes aegypti family of mosquitos. Just like others the company has ...

Under the project's revised Experimental Use Permit (EUP), the EPA is permitted to release nearly 2.5 billion Aedes aegypti mosquitoes ... Activator Variant (tTAV-OX5034) into the wild.

Typically, four days after being bit by an infected Aedes aegypti mosquito, a person will develop viremia, a condition in which there is a high level of the dengue virus in the blood. Viremia ...