An entire city in Australia did not report a single new case of dengue for the last four years all thanks to a group of Australian researchers who have safeguarded this city from dengue outbreaks by making use of captive-bred mosquitoes that can effectively combat the spread of this severe virus. This is the first time that captive-bred mosquitoes have been deployed to fight dengue claim the researchers. In case you are wondering how this magic happened here is what the researchers have done. A host of mosquitoes were bred to bear naturally-occurring Wolbachia bacteria that averts the transmission of
