Indonesian researchers breed ‘good’ mosquitoes to combat dengue

The trial results, published by the New England Journal of Medicine in June, showed that deploying mosquitoes with Wolbachia reduced dengue cases by as much as 77 percent and hospitalisations by up to 86 percent.

Researchers in Indonesia have found a way to fight disease-bearing mosquitoes by breeding a species of insect which carries a kind of bacteria that prevents viruses like dengue from growing inside them.