This experiment was unveiled at yesterday’s commemoration of International Dengue Day.

The Americas continue to fight a tough battle to counteract the advance of dengue fever in the region. In addition to measures such as the elimination of mosquito breeding sites and fumigation, an unusual technique has now been added – releasing communities of mosquitoes “vaccinated” with a bacterium via drones in areas with a high incidence of the disease.

The innovative experiment, whose benefits are recognized by health authorities on the occasion of this Friday’s commemoration of International Dengue Day, will be developed in September in Cali, Colombia’s third largest city, which in 2019 recorded 15,000 cases of dengue, 15% of the total reported in a country where it is estimated that more than 25 million people are at risk of contracting the disease. So far this year, the figure has reached 1881. But how can we understand that the Aedes Aegypti, transmitters of dengue, Zika, and chikungunya, are now in charge of stopping these diseases?

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