澳大利亚科学家宣布，在释放特别繁殖培育的蚊子后，已经成功停止了登革热的传播。
登革热是一种病毒感染，通过伊蚊或者雌性埃及伊蚊传播，会导致类似流感的症状并且可能致命。
蚊子叮咬已有登革热病毒的人后再咬别人时，就会将传染登革病毒。
蒙纳士的研究人员
澳大利亚墨尔本的莫纳士大学培育出一种蚊子，这种蚊子含有一种叫做Wolbachia的常见细菌，这种细菌存在于蚊子细胞内，可以阻止登革热病毒在蚊子体内复制。 病毒无法复制，蚊子就不会传染其他人。
这种特别繁殖的蚊子于2014年在澳大利亚的汤斯维尔市Townsville释放到自然中，与当地的蚊子交配产生的后代携带相同的天然Wolbachia细菌。 自蚊子释放以来，该镇再也没有出现过登革热。
该项目在昆士兰州汤斯维尔取得的成功让人们看到希望，用Wolbachia细菌阻止巴西的寨卡Zika病毒的传播。特别繁殖的蚊子已经释放到里约热内卢的贫民区。
11 Aug 2018 The Week - Junior
Mosquitoes help to beat disease
Australian scientists claim to have halted the spread of dengue fever after releasing specially bred mosquitoes. Dengue fever is a viral infection that causes flu-like symptoms and can be deadly. It is spread when a female Aedes aegypti or Aedes
albopictus mosquito bites someone who already has the virus. When it bites someone else it passes the dengue virus on to them.
Researchers from Monash
University in Melbourne, Australia, bred mosquitoes that contain a common bacterium called Wolbachia, which lives inside the cells of insects. This bacteria stops the dengue virus from making copies of itself inside mosquitoes. Since the virus can’t replicate, the insects don’t give it to other humans.
The specially bred mosquitoes were released in the Australian city of Townsville in 2014, where they mated with local mosquitoes. Their offspring carried the same naturally occurring Wolbachia bacteria. The town has been dengue fever-free since the mosquitoes were first released.
10 Aug 2018 The Guardian Weekly
Deploying mosquitoes stops dengue outbreaks
The first large-scale deployment of mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which makes them unable to transmit viruses, has stopped all outbreaks of dengue fever in a city in northern Australia for the last four years. The success of the project in Townsville, Queensland, will encourage hopes that Wolbachia can provide a knockout blow against the Zika virus in Brazil as well, where the mosquitoes have been introduced into the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Until now, the technology has only been tried in small pilot projects. Townsville, however, with 187,000 inhabitants, is on a much larger scale. Mosquitoes specially bred to carry Wolbachia, which occurs naturally in up to 60% of insects, were let loose over 66 sq km of the city.
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太好了。赶快把这个技术出口到新加坡，大马，印尼。
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5年以后，balabalabala, 这是生物武器啊，怎么完整评价风险? 感觉比药物要更加严格N倍吧，这也好随便的吗?!
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天朝也需要，广东一带是高发区
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赞澳洲技术。
希望未来也对蟾蜍控制技术有所突破
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很好很好
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登革热??? 你是说“骨痛溢血热症“是吧？
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原文提到培育蚊子的是：Researchers from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia
不是墨尔本大学的
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那种细菌只感染昆虫，不感染人和其他动物。
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是啊，天朝也有另一种让蚊子绝育的生物武器，广州每周要释放300万只绝育的雄蚊来降低幼蚊的成活率。这个办法应该比人工降低蚊子密度更有效。
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那个地方正好断行，看漏了。。。
我还奇怪图片为啥是Monash大学。
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一个是音译，一个是意译。
就像解百纳和赤霞珠。
登革热（法语：La fièvre de la dengue ; 英语：dengue fever），也称为骨痛热症、断骨热、天狗热，是一种由登革热病毒引起的由蚊媒热带病。
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非常好
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威武
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我們從小就一直叫“登革熱”，還真沒聽過別的名，政府那句公益口號“小心登革熱，齊來把蚊滅”很押韻，印象深刻
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牛
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很有创意
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能推广就好了
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有点意思，得认真观察，不能出新问题
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