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write a two paragraph summary of ”outsmarting dengue fever by vaccinating mosquitoes ”by Rebecca coffey

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"Outsmarting dengue fever by vaccinating mosquitoes by Rebecca coffey" Just ofter sunrise in early January, a delivary van trundeled along a suburban street in Queenisland Australia. Inside were tubs filled with a type of mosquito that carries denque fever, the flulike illnen that annually sicken so million to two millian people worldwide. workers inside the van stopped at every fourth house, took out what resembled a small chinese food container and release yo musquitoes into the wild. After a week, they had filled the air with 600o Insects. By early march they had launched 72000 O' Neill's approach vaccinates mosquituel instead of patients. In his lub under a Microscope, workers Injects the backerium wolbachia pipients which is harmless to human and common among Insects, into egg off of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, a major carrier of the dunque microbe. O'Neill has found that wolbachia makes. A megypti resistant to and unable to transmit the disease. what is more, all progeny Inherit Immunity.

o Neill's results are also promising Early testing has shown that about 25% of larvae in the wild population were wolbachin-infected and denque-immune. By take may be hopes to have achieved his fraid good to show that wolbachia can improve resistance to denque in a wild population of A. aegypti If so hell will lauch a similar trail in vietnum in early summer-