July 06, 2021
From the fourth quarter of this year, more of the male mosquitoes carrying the Wolbachia bacterium will be released in selected residential estates.
The Straits Times
SINGAPORE - Project Wolbachia - Singapore s weapon against dengue fever - has managed to suppress the Aedes aegypti mosquito population by up to 98 per cent, with 88 per cent fewer dengue cases, at selected study sites.
The study sites were in Yishun, Tampines, Choa Chu Kang and Bukit Batok towns, where male mosquitoes carrying the Wolbachia bacterium were released in selected areas so that when female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes mate with them, their eggs do not hatch.
Dengue cases were reduced by 77 percent in a groundbreaking trial that stopped mosquitoes from transmitting viruses, scientists said. The World Mosquito Program, in partnership with Gadjah Mada University, conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that aimed to measure the efficacy of the Wolba