Health
World Mosquito Program’s Wolbachia method dramatically reduces dengue incidence in Indonesia – Mirage News
Professor Nicholas Jewell from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine was the study statistician on the trial, having conceived of the design,…
Professor Nicholas Jewell from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine was the study statistician on the trial, having conceived of the design, statistical methods, and ultimate data analysis.
The three-year cluster randomised controlled trial tested whether infecting mosquitoes with the wMel strain of Wolbachia would reduce the incidence of virologically-confirmed dengue amongst 3 to 45yr olds living in Yogyakarta, an area with a population of 312,000. It showed a 77% reduction in…
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