Inside Singapore's Wolbachia mosquito-breeding facility, set up to fight dengue

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How do you produce 7 million Wolbachia mosquitoes a week? We got a detailed look inside Singapore's Wolbachia mosquito-breeding facility. Project Wolbachia aims to fight dengue by producing and releasing non-biting male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at selected locations to mate with their female counterparts. The resultin

How do you produce 7 million Wolbachia mosquitoes a week? We got a detailed look inside Singapore's Wolbachia mosquito-breeding facility.

Project Wolbachia aims to fight dengue by producing and releasing non-biting male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at selected locations to mate with their female counterparts. The resulting eggs do not hatch.

 

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