Now, to start our next segment, I would like to play a short game with you, if you don't mind.

Up on your screen are four options. You have snakes, lions, mosquitoes, and sharks. Which one of those

do you believe is the most deadliest creature in respect to humans? Now, if you saw through it and you guessed that this was a trick

question, you are right. Or, I mean, also if you just happen to see the thumbnail of this video,

you probably guessed it as well. It's the little mosquito who is responsible for upwards of

a million human deaths a year globally, which for your reference is five times more than the

combined death toll of those other

three animals. And the mosquito death toll, it doesn't even include the additional millions or even

tens of millions of people who get sick every year from things like West Nile virus, dengue,

Zika, malaria, and yellow fever, and wind up surviving.

So given these numbers, you would assume that a new initiative by Google, of all companies,

to help eradicate the population of deadly mosquitoes here in America sounds like great news.

And it is great news.

However, the way that they're going about it doesn't sound so appealing to many people who hear it.

That's because Google's debug program, as they're calling it,

it involves releasing upwards of 64 million

specialized mosquitoes into Florida and California.

Their plan is to basically release 16 million mosquitoes per year over the course of the next

four years, which sounds diabolical, but there is a method behind the madness. And the method is

described fairly well on their website, which is also a well-designed website, and it says the following,

quote, we're using an idea that's been around since the 1950s.

It's called the sterile insect technique, and it has worked on other kinds of bugs,

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