The clothes were intially developed for dengue infection.
It's only a few months before the highly anticipated 2016 Summer Olympics will be hosted in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. However, with the recent outbreak of the dreaded Zika virus, the country has released its countermeasures for the safety of athletes, participants and spectators, BBC reports.
The country is one of the strictest in its implementation of the abortion laws.
Health officials of Brazil are now hopeful that the genetically modified mosquitoes may stop Zika virus from spreading. According to a British biotech company, releasing genetically modified sterile male mosquitoes has succeeded in reducing the number of disease-transmitting mosquitoes.
Initial experiments were already undertaken since April 2015.
The mosquito-borne Zika virus has infected female inmates inside a prison in Colombia.
The Aedes aegypti mosquito is the known carrier of the diseases.
Paraguayan Health Ministry advised that eliminating the mosquitoes' breeding ground is the best vaccine for dengue.
