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

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

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JAKARTA – To curb dengue, the Jakarta provincial government is planning to extend the release of mosquitos with Wolbachia to longer than six months in case the mosquito population target is not met.

Illustration—Mosquito eggs containing Wolbachia. Humans bitten by an Aedes aegypti mosquito with Wolbachia would not contract any specific disease, an official said. (ANTARA/HO-Ministry of Health/rst) ...

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