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Singapore breeds millions of bacteria-infected mosquitoes to fight deadly dengue fever | South China Morning Post

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Singapore unveiled a new mosquito breeding facility on December 4, 2019, as part of its programme to fight dengue fever. Male insects infected with the Wolbachia bacteria in labs of the city state’s National Environment Agency do not bite, and when released into the wild to breed with females, their eggs do not hatc…

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