Researchers from Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Conicet) have found populations of mosquitoes resistant to insecticides in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area and the country’s northwest regions. This discovery comes during a dengue outbreak with 129,150 cases and 65 deaths between July 2022 and July 2023. The study revealed three genetic types of […]
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