For over eight years, the Brazilian city of Niterói has been implementing an innovative public health strategy to combat dengue fever by releasing genetically modified mosquitoes. Niterói’s project, with World Mosquito Program and Rio’s Fiocruz, employs Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes for dengue control. This bacteria significantly diminishes the mosquitoes’ capability to transmit dengue and other viral diseases […]
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