'Vaccinated' mosquitos released in Rio to combat dengue
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Oct 02, 2014 - Ten thousand mosquitos immunized against dengue fever have been released in Brazil as part of an innovative attempt to curb the spread of the tropical viral sickness, biologists said Thursday. Gabriel Sylvestre Ribeiro told AFP that the Aedes aegypti mosquitos were released in Tubiacanga neighborhood in northern Rio state. "We inoculated them in the lab with the Wolbachia bacteria, which ... more
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