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The internal injury was sterilizing the female worms and sometimes even killing them.

From Washington Post

Mr. van Daan hadn’t gotten the jars hot enough when he was sterilizing them, so Father ended up making jam every evening.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank