Half of all homes in Singapore will soon be covered by a programme that can lower the risk of dengue. Authorities are ...

Vector biologist Luciano Moreira has been fighting disease-causing pathogens for years. Now he teams up with Wolbachia in ...

GUANGZHOU -- In a novel approach to combating dengue fever, the southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou has unleashed ...

SINGAPORE – Project Wolbachia, an effort to control dengue through the release of lab-grown mosquitoes, will expand to cover 50 per cent of all households in Singapore by 2026. The insects ...

It involves breeding mosquitoes infected with a common bacteria called Wolbachia that can block the insect's ability to transmit dengue. Five years ago, Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes were ...

Increasing global temperatures wrought by greenhouse gas emissions have boosted the number of dengue cases, new research ...

The infected insects are unable to carry the viruses that cause dengue, Zika, chikungunya, or yellow fever, but, inoculated with Wolbachia, when they reproduce they transmit the bacteria to others ...

A spike in imported cases of dengue fever from an international tourism mecca has health authorities in the Far North on ...

The public health program has been rolled out to several other nations, however TPHS director Dr Jacqui Murdoch said dengue fever could still be imported from areas where wolbachia-infected ...