{"id":38235,"date":"2018-08-04T11:52:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T11:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=38235"},"modified":"2018-08-04T11:52:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T11:52:28","slug":"specially-bred-mosquitoes-help-prevent-dengue-outbreaks-in-australian-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/specially-bred-mosquitoes-help-prevent-dengue-outbreaks-in-australian-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Specially-bred mosquitoes help prevent dengue outbreaks in Australian city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In a first, Australian researchers have successfully protected an entire city from dengue outbreaks by deploying captive-bred mosquitoes that are unable to spread the deadly virus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mosquitoes bred to carry naturally-occurring Wolbachia bacteria, which prevents the transmission of viruses, were let loose over 66 square kilometres of Townsville, Queensland in places where they could naturally breed.<\/p>\n<p>In four years since the mosquitoes were introduced, no new cases of dengue have been reported in the area. &#8220;We&#8217;re wanting to have a really major impact on disease. For dengue and Zika nothing&#8217;s working at the moment for control. There&#8217;s evidence of a growing disease burden and there was the big Zika pandemic that stripped through the Americas recently and the rest of the world,&#8221; said Scott O&#8217;Neill, director of the World Mosquito Program at Monash University in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we&#8217;ve got something here that&#8217;s going to have a significant impact and I think this study is the first indication that it&#8217;s looking very promising,&#8221; O&#8217;Neill told &#8216;The Guardian&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers are now conducting a randomised controlled trial Indonesia. In Brazil mosquitoes have been introduced in Rio de Janeiro, with the hopes of countering Zika virus outbreaks.<\/p>\n<p>The land area covered in Rio is twice that of Townsville and the population six times as great, with more than 1.5 million people. &#8220;Rio is one of the hardest places to work in. If we can be successful in Rio we can probably be successful anywhere in the world,&#8221; O&#8217;Neill said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a first, Australian researchers have successfully protected an entire city from dengue outbreaks by deploying captive-bred mosquitoes that are unable to spread the deadly virus. Mosquitoes bred to carry naturally-occurring Wolbachia bacteria, which prevents the transmission of viruses, were let loose over 66 square kilometres of Townsville, Queensland in places where they could naturally [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38238,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38235\/revisions\/38238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}