Honduras | Fighting dengue fever with... mosquitos?
"For years MSF has conducted emergency interventions to deal with dengue outbreaks in this area," explains Edgar Boquin, project coordinator. "But research shows that the usual methods like fumigation are no longer effective to stop the spread."
This new approach has a secret weapon: mosquitos themselves.
Wolbachia is a bacterium found naturally on around 50 percent of insects. It competes with viruses like dengue, making it harder for them to reproduce in the insect.
Crucially, however, Wolbachia is not naturally occurring on the mosquitos that are spreading those diseases in Tegucigalpa.
This project is hoping to change that.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare.
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