The Jakarta Health Agency is preparing to distribute over 800 buckets containing around 150 Wolbachia-infected mosquito eggs ...

The Jakarta administration is planning to release the eggs of lab-bred mosquitoes carrying the Wolbachia bacteria next week in Kembangan district, West Jakarta, in an effort to control dengue in the ...

The Jakarta Provincial Government and Health Ministry (Kemenkes) are about to launch a program to release Wolbachia-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in West Jakarta.

The bacterium, Wolbachia, lives inside the cells of insects and can only be transmitted directly from parent to offspring via ...

Six Brazilian municipalities are to receive shortly the first batch of Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes infected with the wolbachia bacteria, a kind of Trojan horse to decimate the community of infected ...

Around 90 countries have reported active dengue transmission in 2024, with the Americas reporting an all-time high of more ...

A new study led by researchers at Penn State has uncovered how a widespread bacteria called Wolbachia and the WO virus that it carries can cause sterility in male insects by hijacking their sperm.

The rainy season brings floods and diseases, including dengue with cases in the country surging to almost 6,000 per week. This figure is higher than the 5,100 cases registered in pre-pandemic 2019, ...

This bacteria, called Wolbachia, affects mosquito reproduction. Luka Zavas, outreach manager with the American Bird Conservancy, one of the agencies involved in the project, explains how it works.

The trial used mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria. One of the researchers, Dr Katie Anders, describes them as "naturally miraculous". Wolbachia doesn't harm the mosquito, but it camps out ...

pointed out that the study was predominantly based on cell culture work, but added that it was still a good start to understand this mechanism. “It just builds on what is known about Wolbachia ...

An Austral­ian scientist believed that Wolbachia — a bacterium naturally present in 60% of insect species, but not in the mosquitoes that transmit the dengue virus — could block the mosquitoes’ ...