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Gates-Supported World Mosquito Program Achieves 95% Dengue Reduction in Medellín, Colombia
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In 2017, the World Mosquito Program — supported by the Gates Foundation through grants to Monash University — began large-scale releases of Wolbachia-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes across Medellín, Bello, and Itagüí in Colombia's Aburrá Valley. A peer-reviewed study in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases found dengue incidence fell by 95–97 percent in treated areas. At peak, the Medellín factory produced 30 million Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes per week — the largest Wolbachia mosquito factory in the world at the time.
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0011642
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