/The great mosquito swap – BBC News

The great mosquito swap – BBC News

Each year, it’s believed that just about 400 million people all over the world are have contracted dengue fever, a life-threatening illness that’s handed down by nasty flying bugs.

No vaccine works well at stopping people catching the condition, what when the nasty flying bugs themselves were treated to prevent them distributing it?

In a single city that’s seriously affected – Medellin in Colombia — an ambitious project is going ahead to swap wild nasty flying bugs for any variety that’s identical in each and every way, however with one crucial difference. These nasty flying bugs happen to be bred from examples injected with bacteria making it impossible to deliver not only dengue, but the Zika and chikungunya infections, and Yellow Fever.

Buoyed by effective projects around australia, the planet Bug Program is releasing countless recently-minted nasty flying bugs across Medellin, with the hope that they’ll switch the wild population.

And also to reassure the general public, schoolchildren are now being trained to like nasty flying bugs, as well as to reproduce them — a note that contradicts what they’ve been introduced as much as believe.

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