City of São Paulo and Flyttr Announce Strategic Partnership to Combat the Dengue Mosquito at Scale
City of São Paulo and Flyttr Announce Strategic Partnership to Combat the Dengue Mosquito at Scale
The initiative builds on city’s long history as a global leader in dengue control.
Large-scale deployment of Flyttr’s leading Aedes do Bem™ solution started in April this year.
FlyttrMind, Flyttr’s AI-driven decision-support platform, is helping guide deployments and providing decision support.
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — July 15, 2026 — The City of São Paulo and Flyttr (formerly Oxitec), the global leader in sustainable pest management solutions, today announced the launch of a strategic partnership that will include the design and deployment of large-scale operational project of Flyttr’s Aedes do Bem as an integrated component of the city’s dengue control operations. Aedes do Bem is the leading sustainable biological vector control solution to safely suppress populations of the dengue-transmitting Aedes aegypti mosquito.
The first stage of the partnership includes the deployment of Aedes do Bem in the districts of Jardim Ângela, Itaim Paulista and Pirituba. Deployment areas in each district were selected based on the city’s technical criteria including arbovirus incidence history and risk, population density, geographic characteristics and socioeconomic vulnerability.
The project is being led by the expert staff in the city’s Municipal Health Secretariat (SMS) and Health Surveillance Coordination (COVISA). Flyttr’s team helped plan the project using groundbreaking AI-driven decision-support software platform, FlyttrMind, which uses proprietary AI models and agents for designing, guiding and optimizing pest management operations within a customer’s existing workflows and systems. Flyttr can predict the likelihood of dengue down to the household level in São Paulo – and for over 100 million buildings across Brazil – up to eight weeks in the future by using advanced AI models that collect and analyze millions of datapoints daily, giving the city’s vector control teams dynamic insights and intervention guidance that they can use to inform their decision-making on a daily basis.
The project builds on São Paulo’s role as a leader in adopting innovative solutions for vector control, and the successful commercial scale-up of Flyttr’s Aedes do Bem across Brazil. Aedes do Bem is now serving governments, businesses and communities in all states of the country. Deployed as mosquito eggs in easily shippable and deployable just-add-water devices, the solution works through the steady release of non-biting “friendly” male mosquitoes, which do not transmit diseases. When these males mate with wild-type females, their female offspring cannot survive. By reducing the abundance of female mosquitoes – which are responsible for biting and transmitting disease, this approach leads to a targeted and environmentally sustainable suppression of the local Aedes aegypti population over time.
In cities where the program has been implemented, Aedes do Bem has received overwhelming public support and up to 96% suppression of the dengue-transmitting mosquito in treated urban communities, reinforcing confidence among residents and local health authorities.
“The City of São Paulo manages one of the most advanced dengue control operations in one of the most complex urban settings anywhere in the world,” said Grey Frandsen, CEO of Flyttr. “We’re honored they’ve chosen the Flyttr platform to help deliver predictive intelligence, targeted interventions, and decision-support, all in one package, to support these scale-up projects and help them achieve their public health aims. We couldn’t ask for a better partner on a bigger stage to show what Flyttr can do.”
“We’re proud to partner with the City of São Paulo to deploy Aedes do Bem at scale and work closely together to integrate the solution into the city’s existing vector control operations,” said Natalia Verza Ferreira, President of Flyttr Brazil. “Health agents and communities in all three neighbourhoods have been highly welcoming, and the work is already underway to help reduce dengue vector populations ahead of the next El Niño, expected in the second half of 2026. The Health Department is planning for the next season by adopting a tool specifically designed to support efficient, adaptive, and easy-to-use operations at the scale unique to São Paulo.”
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