DENGUE FACES A 'SWARM'

China Daily | Updated: 2026-05-25 00:00

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Brazil bio-factory injects mosquitoes with bacterium to block disease transmission

A researcher examines eggs of the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, at a laboratory of biotech company Wolbito do Brasil in Curitiba, Brazil, on March 19. AFP

Brazilian scientist Luciano Moreira tenderly handles a glass box of swarming mosquitoes infected with a bacterium that blocks the transmission of dengue.

These mosquitoes have protected millions in Brazil, but the debilitating disease is spreading faster than the insects can be bred and shipped around the country.

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