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Cutting mosquito populations in half in Ponce, Puerto Rico
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Apr 13 2023
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Series: NZEID accomplishments 2022
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Description:Long before Liliana Sánchez-González became a doctor, she got very sick with dengue when she was a teenager in Colombia. She was lucky to live through it and, years later, found purpose in caring for her own patients with dengue. But she never dreamed she would one day coordinate a project aimed at ending dengue at the source, by releasing mosquitoes infected with the Wolbachia bacteria to breed with and stop the local mosquitoes that spread dengue.
Liliana was the lead coordinator for COPA (Communities Organized to Prevent Arboviruses), a collaboration with CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Ponce Health Science University, and the Puerto Rico Vector Control Unit. One of COPA’s goals was to assess the effectiveness of emerging mosquito control methods, like releasing Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes into the environment. When male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia are released and mate with wild female mosquitoes that do not have Wolbachia, the eggs will not hatch. This results in a reduction in the mosquito population.
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