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July 10, 2018 10:32:31
CSIRO experiment has managed to eliminate more than 80% of mosquitoes that spread dengue fever near a city in northern Queensland
CSIRO released More than three million sterile male Aedes Researchers have toured cities in vans that used GPS sensors to release mosquitoes at certain intervals to achieve uniform coverage of male mosquitoes through ants .
Paul De Barro, CSIRO's research director, said that the team was partnering with the James Cook University and the Verily Technology Company for the "Debug Innisfail" project.
"We created a population of mosquitoes that contained within them a natural bacterium called wolbachia," he said.
"We only released males who had this wolbachia, and they would cross with mosquitoes in the field, wild mosquitoes that did not have that same strain of wolbachia, and therefore wild females would only deposit sterile eggs and so the population would crush. "
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes also spread diseases like yellow fever, zika virus and chikungunya, making hundreds of millions of sick in more from 120 countries each year.
Dr. De Barro said the results of the experiment were promising for eradicating diseases. "I certainly think with technology like this, and over time we will be in a situation where we could see a future Australia that does not have this mosquito," he said. 19659017] "What we have demons Technology works to at least suppress.
"What Verily wants to do now, is to want to test the technology in a place that has a big dengue problem."
Dr. De Barro stated that the test sites were perfect. for the experience.
"You have a number of small towns surrounded by sugar cane, so they become small isolated and experimental islands," he said
"So we could have three cities treated and three cities that have not been treated allow us to have a very good picture of the reaction of mosquitoes to the release of these sterile male mosquitoes.
CSIRO said the project would end in northern Queensland and that Verily was planning trials abroad.
Another Monash University essay, the World Mosquito Program (formerly Eliminate Dengue), released wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in northern Queensland in order to replace the local population of Aedes aegypti by one who can transmit dengue
alth credited with the project to reduce the cases of dengue transmitted locally to Cairns.
Topics:
diseases and disorders,
invertebrates — insects and arachnids,
science and technology,
Innisfail-4860,
qld,
Australia
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July 10, 2018 09:57:18
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