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Dengue outbreaks are set to become increasingly common as climate change shifts epidemiological trends. We need an integrated approach to tackle them.

In a laboratory in downtown Medellín, Colombia, it is lunchtime: A technician in a white coat carries a loaded tray into a steamy nursery. She walks between rows of white

The US Food and Drug Administration is examining the safety of a DNA-altering treatment for sickle-cell disease. Plus, encouraging results from a big trial of anti-dengue mosquitoes and how to successfully switch fields. The US Food and Drug Administration is examining the safety of a DNA-altering treatment for sickle-cell disease. Plus, encouraging results from a big trial of anti-dengue mosquitoes and how to successfully switch fields.

The world sees up to 100 million cases and 22,000 deaths due to dengue every year. Researchers may have found a way to cut those numbers significantly.

Largest-ever deployment of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes yields ‘encouraging’ results in three densely populated cities. Largest-ever deployment of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes yields ‘encouraging’ results in three densely populated cities.

Not all mosquitoes feed on humans (some only bite frogs), and not all carry viruses. But the ones that do have killed more people throughout human history than any other animal.

By Paloma Almoguera Singapore, Oct 8 (EFE).- In Singapore, encountering a swarm of millions mosquitoes may paradoxically offer protection against dengue fever. But how? The island has undertaken the "Wolbachia Project,” which involves releasing thousands of mosquitoes inoculat

Dengue-carrying mosquitoes are spreading to mountains where they were once unknown.

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Scientists have found a way to inject a bacteria into mosquitos that neutralizes deadly viruses they carry.