SINGAPORE: Male Wolbachia-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes will be released at four more locations in Singapore as part of a ...

Project Wolbachia is expanding to four new areas in Singapore, increasing coverage and aiming to control the Aedes mosquito ...

The National Environment Agency (NEA) will be expanding Project Wolbachia to help curb the spread of dengue transmitted by ...

Singapore saw its lowest level of dengue cases since 2018 last year, due to an absence of major outbreaks locally, an overall ...

The fight against dengue fever has a new weapon: a mosquito infected with the bacteria Wolbachia, which prevents the spread of the virus. These mosquitoes have now been deployed in several trials ...

New research on Joro spiders by Georgia Gwinnett College found the invasive critters carry a bacteria that can cause them to go sterile. Wolbachia, a common bacteria found in about half of all insects ...

Singapore is ramping up its fight against dengue fever, announcing a significant expansion of its Wolbachia program, CNA reports. The initiative involves releasing male Wolbachia-carrying Aedes ...

Dengue has been a public health problem in the tropical world for decades and 2024 saw a global dengue surge, with more than 14 million cases and 10 thousand deaths reported worldwide—more than double ...

A widespread bacteria called Wolbachia and a virus that it carries can cause sterility in male insects by hijacking their sperm, preventing them from fertilizing eggs of females that do not have the ...

NEW ORLEANS (November 16, 2024) — Climate change is having a massive global impact on dengue transmission, accounting for 19% of the current dengue burden, with a potential to spark an additional ...