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kateiacy
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After australia, now brazil too and two more countries: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29356232
The mechanism looks promising, long as wolbachia does not raise the chance of dengue finding a sooner resistance against it, or wolbachia turning sour. Man introducing anything 'into the wild' has rarely turned the right way. |
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Rickjb
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See also my post re the start on 30 Oct 2014 of a 12-month trial of wolbachia in Townsville Australia here, in the Interesting News Articles Related to Dengue thread.
@lavaflow: Re the risk of "wolbachia turning sour", they are already here, infecting other insects such as fruit flies, so it shouldn't matter if they escape. |
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