The Jakarta Health Agency is preparing to distribute over 800 buckets containing around 150 Wolbachia-infected mosquito eggs ...

The bacterium, Wolbachia, lives inside the cells of insects and can only be transmitted directly from parent to offspring via ...

With an increase in dengue deaths and cases this year, a multipronged approach is needed to manage dengue outbreaks and ...

The Jakarta Provincial Government and Health Ministry (Kemenkes) are about to launch a program to release Wolbachia-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in West Jakarta.

A new study led by researchers at Penn State has uncovered how a widespread bacteria called Wolbachia and the WO virus that it carries can cause sterility in male insects by hijacking their sperm.

The trial used mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria. One of the researchers, Dr Katie Anders, describes them as "naturally miraculous". Wolbachia doesn't harm the mosquito, but it camps out ...

The Jakarta administration is planning to release the eggs of lab-bred mosquitoes carrying the Wolbachia bacteria next week in Kembangan district, West Jakarta, in an effort to control dengue in the ...

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 ...

This bacteria, called Wolbachia, affects mosquito reproduction. Luka Zavas, outreach manager with the American Bird Conservancy, one of the agencies involved in the project, explains how it works.

The rainy season brings floods and diseases, including dengue with cases in the country surging to almost 6,000 per week. This figure is higher than the 5,100 cases registered in pre-pandemic 2019, ...

An Austral­ian scientist believed that Wolbachia — a bacterium naturally present in 60% of insect species, but not in the mosquitoes that transmit the dengue virus — could block the mosquitoes’ ...

Project Management Institute (PMI) has revealed its 2024 ‘Most Influential Projects’ list with three African projects making the top 20 projects across industries and regions.