Aedes mosquitos are the carriers of Dengue and Chikungunya BigstockEffort to eradicate dengue by pitting sterile mosquitoes against fertile ones declared a successAt a time when scores of people have died of dengue in Dhaka and Manila, while hundreds of others have been suffering from the deadly mosquito-borne disease, Guangzhou has succeeded in fighting the menace by pitting mosquitoes against mosquitoes. Nature published the article on July 17, as the mastermind behind this project, Xi Zhiyong and his team, declared that their effort to eradicate dengue by pitting sterile mosquitoes against the fertile ones had succeeded. Drones were used to release over a million specially bred mosquitoes in a certain part of the old city. Wolbachia, a bacteria, is used to make male mosquitoes sterile. Since 2016, some 200 million sterile mosquitoes have been released in Guangdong.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 22, 2019 07:18 UTC