Unlike many other insects, Aedes aegypti mosquitoes typically don’t harbor naturally occurring Wolbachia in their cells. These bacteria compete with viruses for resources, thus limiting a ...

In a novel approach to combating dengue fever, the southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou has unleashed sterile mosquitoes ...

Half of all homes in Singapore will soon be covered by a programme that can lower the risk of dengue. Authorities are ...

New research on Joro spiders by Georgia Gwinnett College found the invasive critters carry a bacteria that can cause them to go sterile. Wolbachia, a common bacteria found in about half of all ...

A spike in imported cases of dengue fever from an international tourism mecca has health authorities in the Far North on ...

However, Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes transmit the bacteria to their offspring, which, according to Anders, means its protective effect could persist in a local population for many years.

new findings presented at the ASTMH Annual Meeting provide some of the best evidence to date that releasing mosquitoes that carry a common bacteria called Wolbachia may offer a powerful tool to ...

Six Brazilian municipalities are to receive shortly the first batch of Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes infected with the wolbachia bacteria, a kind of Trojan horse to decimate the community of infected ...

Picture: iStock She said the WMP had been working since 2023 to “dengue-proof” Bali, but it would take several years for the wolbachia bacteria to establish widely in the Indonesian tourist ...