The first large-scale deployment of mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which makes them unable to transmit viruses, has raised hopes that the same strategy can provide a knockout blow against the Zika virus in Brazil as well.
Dengue Fever stopped
Source: SteveMorton Monash Uni
By protecting mosquitoes from dengue fever, Monash University scientists have potentially found a way of preventing the 50 million human cases of the disease reported every year
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