A nuclear technique has successfully been used to suppress a major pest - the tsetse fly - in Senegal without inadvertently harming other insects, an eight-year study shows.

The study, published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, is part of a project to help the west African country eradicate tsetse in Niayes - a 1,000 km2 fertile valley near the capital Dakar - using insecticide-impregnated traps followed by the application of the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT).

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Source: IAEA