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| Cultivate "good" mosquitoes to fight dengue fever |
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 4th.
"Reference News" published a Reuters report on the 4th that "Indonesian researchers cultivated "good" mosquitoes to fight dengue fever
.
" The summary of the report is as follows:
Researchers in Indonesia have found a way to deal with disease-transmitting mosquitoes.
They breed mosquitoes that carry a certain kind of bacteria that can prevent dengue viruses from growing in mosquitoes
.
Wolbachia is a common bacterium that occurs naturally in 60% of insect species, including certain species of mosquitoes, fruit flies, moths, dragonflies and butterflies
.
However, according to the World Mosquito Project (WMP), a non-profit organization that initiated the study, no such bacteria were found in the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads dengue fever
Purwanti, a local director of WMP in Indonesia, said: "In principle, we are breeding'good' mosquitoes
.
Mosquitoes that transmit dengue fever will mate with mosquitoes that carry Wolbachia to produce Wolbachia mosquitoes.
Since 2017, WMP has carried out a joint study at Monash University in Australia and Gacha Mada University in Indonesia, during which researchers have been releasing laboratory-grown Wolbachia to several dengue “hit areas” in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Mosquitoes
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According to the test results published in the New England Journal of Medicine in June this year, during the 27-month study period, the release of Wolbachia mosquitoes reduced the number of dengue fever cases in the test area by as much as 77%.
, The number of hospitalizations decreased by up to 86%
.
Adi Utarini, WMP's chief researcher and who has been involved in Indonesia's Dengue Fever Elimination Program since 2011, said: "We have full confidence in this technology, especially in areas where Aedes aegypti is the most important factor in dengue fever (infection)
.
"
