Did you know? Mosquitoes don’t just spread disease. They can also be used to stop disease transmission. How is this be possible?

Doctors Without Borders has been responding to dengue outbreaks in Honduras since 1998. These are growing increasingly severe, with emergency thresholds reaching alarming levels and more than 10,000 dengue cases reported each year. Current prevention tools are not sufficient to protect people from dengue, there are no specific treatments currently available and no vaccines have yet been produced that provide sufficient protection against infection.

With the aim of finding better and more sustainable solutions to the growing global health challenge that dengue represents, Doctors Without Borders is undertaking new activities to prevent dengue transmission and other arboviruses. This includes deploying an innovative method to reduce the risk of dengue and other arboviruses, carried out in partnership with local communities, the Honduras Ministry of health and the World Mosquito Program. The method ('Wolbachia method') consists of releasing Aedes aegypti mosquitoes carrying the natural Wolbachia bacteria, which reduces mosquitoes’ ability to transmit arboviruses – with the aim to lower the number of people affected by dengue fever in the area.

Read more: [ Ссылка ]

Follow us:
Facebook: [ Ссылка ]
Instagram: [ Ссылка ]
Twitter: [ Ссылка ]
Website: [ Ссылка ]

#innovation #dengue #wolbachia

свернуть