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2019
June
Neat News 2019-161 (added 2019-06-10)
Bacteria to combat viruses in mosquitoes
Public Domain by Jim Gathany
| Studying the transmission of the dengue fever virus, researchers found that many mosquitoes carry the Wolbachia bacterium. However, the bacterium is not found in mosquitoes that transmit the virus. In other words the bacterium seems to vaccinate the mosquito against the virus. This may open a way to combat the dengue fever virus (and potentially others) . |