Experts find way to make mosquitoes dengue-free |Repost

Experts find way to make mosquitoes dengue-free

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By TAN EE LYN
August 25, 2011, 9:30am
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Injecting a bacteria into mosquitoes can block them from transmitting the dengue virus and help control the spread of a disease that kills 20,000 annually in more than 100 countries, scientists said.

In two papers published in the journal Nature on Thursday, researchers in Australia showed how female mosquitoes infected with the Wolbachia bacteria passed the bug easily to their offspring, making them all dengue-free."

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