The Wolbito do Brasil plant, backed and used exclusively by Brazil's health ministry, opened in the city of Curitiba on July 19. A joint venture between the World Mosquito Program, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, and the Institute of Molecular Biology of Parana, it can produce 100 million mosquito eggs per week.
Dengue, colloquially known as break-bone fever for the debilitating pain it can cause, is spread by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that infect hundreds of millions of people each year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Wolbachia bacteria prevent mosquitoes from transmitting dengue and other diseases like Zika or Chikungunya. So public health officials release laboratory-bred mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia to breed with local mosquito populations and pass on the bacteria blocking virus transmission.
“Wolbachia only lives inside insect cells. So, if an insect dies, it dies too,“ said Wolbito do Brasil production manager Antonio Brandao, saying he regards it as a safe method. “Wolbachia is present in more than 60% of insects in nature and ... for centuries we never had any interactions with humans.”
“The area chosen within the municipality is based on dengue cases, so the neighborhoods with the highest incidence of people contracting dengue are the priority neighborhoods,“ said Wolbito do Brasil regional operations coordinator Tamila Kleine - REUTERS
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