INDONESIA Bali: mosquitoes against dengue, Jakarta suspends programme

The Aedes Aegypti species has been injected with the bacterium wolbachia, an organism (harmless to humans) that prevents the spread of the virus that causes dengue. The project was based on a study carried out in Yogyakarta, but according to some experts, this did not give sufficient guarantees for a large-scale replication.

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