Singapore loves to produce mosquitoes instead of killing them. They have mosquito rising room where millions of misquote produces in a week. The mosquitoes obstruct urban female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from generating offspring.
This mosquito breeding facility launched on December 2, 2019 to fight dengue fever. The Male insects infected with the Wolbachia bacteria in labs of the city state’s National Environment Agency (NEA) who do not bite. Their eggs do not hatch when this mosquitoes releases outside to breed with females.
Singapore has faced immense dengue outbreak which pushed them to find a better solution of fighting with this disease. This mosquito breeding project release male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected by Wolbachia to inhibit the mosquito population.
Aedes aegypti is the primary vector of dengue, chikungunya and Zika. The infected male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes will release in wild to meet with urban female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and the produced eggs will not hatch. The continuation of male Wolbachia-Aedes aegypti mosquitoes release will gradually reduce the urban Aedes aegypti mosquito population which ultimately may lower the risk of dengue.
Over the next few decades as a result of global warming the dengue transmission has worsen. The higher temperatures consequences in faster breeding which worsening the dengue situation.
The new Project Wolbachia as part of integrated vector control programme at Ang Mo Kio Avenue is expecting to control dengue, chikungunya and Zika like diseases soon.
