Deployments into the remaining areas were completed in May 2023. According to lead researcher Katie Anders: “We already saw infections essentially flatline in Niterói after the Wolbachia ...

The number of cases was also 90-percent lower than before the Wolbachia mosquitoes were deployed—and "nothing like what was happening in the rest of Brazil", said Katie Anders of the World ...

“That’s the largest continuous releases of Wolbachia [mosquitoes] globally so far, in terms of the population covered and the area,” says Katie Anders, an epidemiologist at the WMP and ...

They harnessed a bacteria called Wolbachia that stops the insect’s ability to spread the disease. Channel 4 News spoke to Dr Katie Anders from the World Mosquito Programme.

Assistant Professor Katie Anders – a researcher from the Monash School of Public Health and previously the World Mosquito Program – said the bacterium was not 100 per cent effective.

Gaia hears from the World Mosquito Programme’s Dr Katie Anders about some positive news from a large trial in Yogyakarta in Indonesia, where mosquitoes infected with a harmless bacteria called ...