There’s No Genetic Engineering for Wolbachia Mosquitoes
Balinese people refuse the lab-grown Wolbachia mosquitoes designed to prevent dengue fever outbreaks. Meanwhile, there is no evidence that the monkeypox spread is accelerating.
Abdul Manan
November 27, 2023
THE Bali provisional government was supposed to release around 200 million mosquitoes carrying the Wolbachia bacteria on Monday, November 13, in an attempt to reduce dengue fever cases caused by the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. However, the Health Ministry-approved program had to be put on hold due to strong rejection from the locals.
Maxi Rein Rondonuwu, the Director-General of Disease Prevention and Control of the Health Ministry, said,
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