Project Wolbachia now covers about 352,000 households, which is about 25 per cent of all households in Singapore, said Dr Ng. This is more than double the 160,000 households covered in the middle ...

But Wolbachia could move into other species, too: The WolBloc team has had some early success in preventing malaria transmission by mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia.

Wolbachia in the lab Russell focuses on Wolbachia because it and its fruit fly hosts are relatively easy to keep alive and reproduce in the lab. Oftentimes when scientists study bacteria, their ...

The Department of Health (DOH) is looking into multiple ways to address the rising dengue cases in the country, as it aims ...

An adult Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti mosquito is seen under a microscope at the insectarium of Universitas Gajah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Dec. 8, 2023. Dasril Roszandi—Anadolu/Getty ...

Releasing Wolbachia-Carrying Mosquitoes in Key Singapore Areas. The expansion, announced by Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and the Environment Baey Yam Keng at the International ...

Areas with Wolbachia mosquitoes also experienced a 56% drop in chikungunya and a 37% reduction in Zika. How is Niterói faring during the current surge? It’s early days.

In a pilot program in Indonesia, releasing Wolbachia mosquitoes cut dengue fever infections by 77 percent. People may be getting just as many itchy mosquito bites as they were before, but fewer of ...

The health ministry may have denied doing so in Negeri Sembilan recently, but the release of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes has been carried out previously and remains a useful measure to combat ...

These wasps may be inhabited by a bacteria, Wolbachia, which turns nearly all wasps in a population female. It turns out they force male eggs to become female thanks to sex — determining genes ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The utilization of the Wolbachia method to control dengue is running into challenges, especially in terms of disseminating information about the method to the community.. Director ...

The Wolbachia bacteria, they say, may make people and pets sick, or increase the mosquito population, leading to a surge in other mosquito-borne illnesses such as Zika, ...