SINGAPORE: Male Wolbachia-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes will be released at four more locations in Singapore as part of a project to combat dengue.

CEBU City Councilor Michelle Abella-Cellona renewed her call for a city-wide adoption of the Wolbachia method as an ...

SINGAPORE - The initiative to control the spread of the Aedes mosquito population by releasing lab-grown male Wolbachia mosquitoes will be extended to four more areas in December. Project Wolbachia ...

Project Wolbachia is expanding to four new areas in Singapore, increasing coverage and aiming to control the Aedes mosquito population. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Fighting dengue Wolbachia bacteria inhibit dengue virus replication by hijacking gene expression in mosquitoes, Australian researchers have found. Molecular entomologist, Associate Professor Sassan ...

Dengue’s brutal “breakbone” fever has long been one of global health’s most stubborn failures, a disease that keeps resurging even as other infections retreat. Now a convergence of mosquito ...

Wolbachia bacteria, which stops mosquitos transmitting virus, to be spread among insects in areas of Brazil and Colombia Mosquitoes in two large areas of Brazil and Colombia are to be infected with ...

KUALA LUMPUR: These days, Mr Khasmani Samat does not kill every mosquito that lands on him. If they are the aegypti species of mosquito, the 76-year-old pensioner chooses to gently blow them away.

A new study has explored the development of a shorter anti-Wolbachia strategy, resulting in adult filarial worm death (macrofilaricidal), by using the antibiotic drug rifampicin to target Wolbachia.

A mosquito manufacturing factory in Campinas, in the Brazilian State of São Paulo, is relying on two new complementary technologies to reduce dengue transmission by tackling the Aedes aegypti ...

View of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with the Wolbachia bacterium at the Oswaldo Cruz foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Oct. 2, 2014. In this week’s magazine, I write about a controversial ...