A deadly livestock disease spread by the New World Screwworm surfaces in Libya and threatens North Africa. The IAEA, FAO, and other agencies join forces to eradicate the insect using a radiation-based technology (sterile insect technique) developed at the IAEA Seibersdorf Laboratories in the 1960s. They work to rid Libya of the pest by June 1992, about a year earlier and millions of dollars less than estimated. SIT applications against other insects gain more attention.
			View the use of the SIT against the tsetse fly.