Gig Economy: Raising mosquitoes, the professional way

Writer John Lui putting his arm in a box filled with male Wolbachia-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to demonstrate that they do not bite. ST PHOTO: GIN TAY
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SINGAPORE – If my job included the role of “sex sorter”, you wouldn’t be able to shut me up.

“Did you say extorter?” you might ask innocently, unaware that you are asking me – the mysterious yet charismatic stranger you have just met at a party – the question I have been dying to answer.

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