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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.
The plan, which involves releasing Aedes aegypti mosquitoes injected with the Wolbachia bacteria in Bali, has now been put on hold indefinitely.
The lab-bred mosquitoes injected with Wolbachia bacteria were meant to be released in dengue fever 'red zones' in the city of Yogyakarta in mid-November.
The plan is for bacteria-carrying mosquitoes to mate with wild ones, spreading the bacteria and creating a less disease-transmitting population.
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