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“From what we’ve seen so far, our method seems to be working well,” says Machado.  This isn’t the only attempt to use drones for the dispersal of disease-fighting mosquitoes—one team ran similar studies in Brazil’s northeast after the region saw an outbreak of zika in 2015 and 2016 that led to 3,308 babies being born with birth defects, and another is carrying out EU-funded tests in France and Spain.  Birdview is now negotiating with different biofactories, or insectaries, that sterilize male Aedes aegypti and with…

The World Mosquito Program is about to start construction on a mass rearing facility—the biggest in the world—in Curitiba. “And we believe that will allow us to essentially cover most of urban Brazil within the next 10 years,” Callahan says. There are also other mosquito-based approaches in the works. The UK company Oxitec has been providing genetically modified “friendly” mosquito eggs to Indaiatuba, Brazil, since 2018. The insects that hatch—all males—don’t bite. And when they mate, their female offspring don’t…

Florida has been playing host to an emerging version of the dengue virus, new research shows. The study found that the state has experienced an “unprecedented” number of cases caused by dengue virus serotype 3 over the past two years, including locally acquired cases. Outbreaks have remained relatively small and contained, at least for now.Former NASA Astronaut Leland Melvin on the “Overview Effect”Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease. Most initial infections cause no symptoms, but about a quarter will experience flu-like…

This story is part of CBC Health's Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven't subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here.In Bangladesh, roughly 300,000 people have been infected with dengue this year during the country's worst-ever outbreak of the mosquito-transmitted disease. By mid-November, the death toll hit close to 1,500, as hospitals in the densely populated South Asian country struggled to cope with the surge in…

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New Delhi: In view of emerging threat of vector borne diseases in the national Capital post Delhi floods situation, the city’s drug department has warned chemists or pharmacy shops to avoid sale of drugs like Aspirin, ibuprofen and…

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NEW DELHI : India has witnessed 85.1% decline in malaria cases and 83.36% decline in deaths during 2015-2022, said Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare on Monday while addressing Asia Pacific Leaders’ Conclave on Malaria Elimination.…

The Current9:17Releasing millions of modified mosquitos to fight dengue feverRead transcribed audioIt may sound like the premise for a horror movie, or a biblical plague, but the World Mosquito Program plans to release five billion mosquitos into Brazil. And the hope is they will help save lives.The billions of bugs will be released with a bacteria called Wolbachia, all in an effort to slow the transmission of dengue fever in the country. " you see the reductions in disease transmission, it doesn't seem like a horror…