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The invasive Asian blue tick feeds on cattle, hindering food production across the world, threatening livelihoods and causing billions of dollars in annual losses to farmers. (Image source: Oxitec)

Oxitec, a developer of biological solutions to control pests that transmit disease, destroy crops and harm livestock, has launched a programme aimed at the cattle tick, Rhipicephalus microplus, an expanding global pest of cattle and other livestock, causing billions of dollars in losses annually

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