Sterile Insect Technique (SIT)

Current context: Bangladesh government has decided to use the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) to control the dengue outbreak.

• Bangladesh is in grip of unprecedented dengue outbreak this year, infecting about 58,000 people.
• To discuss the feasibility of SIT, a team of experts from WHO-FAO and IAEA arrived in Dhaka on 22nd August 2019.
• The SIT for dengue control is also called as 'mosquito fights mosquito technique'.
• In the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are turned infertile by releasing sterilised male mosquitoes in areas of dengue outbreak.
• Earlier two sites in Guangzhou in China, have successfully used this breakthrough technique.

Question: 

Q.1 Which country has recently faced the Dengue outbreak in 2019?
a. China
b. Bangladesh
c. Myanmar
d. Srilanka