Health
Mosquitoes to be bred on large scale to study infectious diseases – Euronews
InnovaFeed will partner in this project with the World Mosquito Program (WMP). who
began fighting the transmission of such viruses to humans ten years ago by infecting female mosquitos with bacteria.
A French start-up has announced the first “industrial-scale mosquito breeding site” in an effort to fight mosquito-borne diseases, like dengue.
The site will be built in Australia, though the exact location has not been disclosed yet.
Dengue can cause serious illness and even death, according to the WHO, and it is mainly present in Asia and Latin America.
It killed 600 people in Brazil in 2019 alone, and the number of cases has grown eight times over the past twenty years.
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