Cuba to supply BTI

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Cuba has offered to supply the BTI bacteria to fight the spread of dengue mosquitoes in Sri Lanka, the Health Ministry said.
A spokesman at the Health Ministry said that the Cuban Ambassador to Sri Lanka had made the offer to the government.
Cuban Ambassador Indira Lopez Arguelles has said that Cuba will give the bacteria to fight the spread of dengue in schools.
The BTI bacteria is to be given free of charge to the Sri Lankan government, the Ambassador has said. (Colombo Gazette)?

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