브라질, '구피'로 지카바이러스와 싸운다
Health authorities in Brazil are taking a new approach to fight the spread of the Zika virus.
Bruce tell us about this form of "biological control."
Ok, so up until this point the government has been distributing insecticides and eliminating mosquitoes' breeding grounds. Now, on top of that, they're using guppies.
The small fish feed on mosquito larva, stemming growth of the insect in pools of stagnant water.
"The fish is very resilient, as it lives in places where there is a lot of sewerage and organic material, and where other species of fish would not survive."
The guppies also reproduce rapidly... meaning this could be a sustainable method to control the spread of the virus.
Bruce, is this proven to be an effective method in disease prevention?
The guppy has been used before as a natural or "bio" method to control diseases spread by mosquitoes in other parts of the world. And...
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