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Indonesian researchers breed 'GOOD' mosquitoes to combat dengue
Researchers in indonesia have located a way to combat ailment-bearing mosquitoes by way of breeding a species of the insect which includes a form of bacteria that forestalls viruses like dengue from developing inside them.
Wolbachia is a common bacteria that occurs clearly in 60% of insect species, together with a few mosquitoes, fruit flies, moths, dragonflies and butterflies. It isn't, but, observed in dengue-carrying aedes aegypti mosquitoes, in step with non-earnings international mosquito program (wmp), which initiated the research.
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Australian scientists discovered and pioneered this research. It is not new.
• https://lens.monash.edu/2018/04/11/1345939/fighting-mosquito-spread-viruses-from-the-inside-out
• https://www.sbs.com.au/news/australian-research-could-end-dreaded-dengue-fever
• https://www.worldmosquitoprogram.org/en/global-progress/australia
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/24432250
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