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Noticias Caracol: En Antioquia contienen el dengue y el zika con una bacteria

Febrero, 2016 Durante todo el 2015, investigadores del programa de estudio y control de enfermedades tropicales de la Universidad de Antioquia, realizaron liberaciones masivas del mosquito Aedes Aegypti en el barrio parís de Bello. El mosquito, incubado con una bacteria lo anuló para trasmitir,  no solo el dengue, sino otras enfermedades.  “Ya sabemos que el 80%…

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The Cairns Post: Mozzies released in Cairns research project could help stop Zika virus

A SUPERCHARGED mozzie first released in Cairns five years ago could play a crucial part in fending off a large-scale global outbreak of Zika virus. The lead researcher behind the Eliminate Dengue ­program, Professor Scott O’Neill, said wolbachia – a naturally-occurring bacterium carried by Cairns mosquitoes since 2011 – had shown it was capable of…

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