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An Army of Mosquitoes to Stop Dengue in Brazil

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In an industrial area of Curitiba, Brazil, there is a very particular factory: instead of producing cars or food, this facility generates every week more than 80 million eggs of Aedes aegypti mosquito. What is striking is that these mosquitoes do not pose a threat, but quite the contrary: they have been modified to curb the spread of diseases such as dengue, zika and chikungunya. Behind this initiative is Luciano Moreira, an agronomist engineer …
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In an industrial area of Curitiba, Brazil, there is a very particular factory: instead of producing cars or food, this facility generates every week more than 80 million eggs of Aedes aegypti mosquito. What is striking is that these mosquitoes do not pose a threat, but quite the contrary: they have been modified to curb the spread of diseases such as dengue, zika and chikungunya. Behind this initiative is Luciano Moreira, an agronomist engineer …

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WWWhat's new broke the news in on Wednesday, December 17, 2025.
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