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I hate when they do this with bugs because it will be impossible to contain if it goes wrong. You can't quarantine from or cull super herpes infected mosquito swarms.
The problem before was that it was impossible to not "contain" it if it goes right (at least with the previous sterilisation approaches), because a certain area got rid of mosquitoes too quickly, therefore not spreading that infertility wide enough, and then they just moved in again from other areas.