Dengue outpaces virus-blocking mosquitoes in Brazil
Brazilian scientist Luciano Moreira tenderly handles a glass box of swarming mosquitoes infected with a bacterium that blocks the transmission of dengue. In the south of the country, which used to be much colder, there was no dengue before, but now there is," Moreira, 59, told AFP. The world's largest breeding factory for the mosquitoes -- nicknamed "wolbitos" after the Wolbachia bacterium they were injected with -- is located in the southern city of Curitiba.
Brazilian scientist Luciano Moreira tenderly handles a glass box of swarming mosquitoes infected with a bacterium that blocks the transmission of dengue. In the south of the country, which used to be much colder, there was no dengue before, but now there is," Moreira, 59, told AFP. The world's largest breeding factory for the mosquitoes -- nicknamed "wolbitos" after the Wolbachia bacterium they were injected with -- is located in the southern city of Curitiba.
