Groundbreaking Partnership to Combat Dengue Mosquito in the Republic of the Marshall Islands Will Deploy Oxitec Friendly™ Aedes aegypti Solution

Groundbreaking Partnership to Combat Dengue Mosquito in the Republic of the Marshall Islands Will Deploy Oxitec Friendly™ Aedes aegypti Solution

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Oxitec,  Oxitec.com,  2023.

The Republic of the Marshall Islands has selected Oxitec’s Friendly™ Aedes aegypti solution for a new pilot intervention to control the disease-spreading invasive Aedes aegypti mosquito. The project is a partnership between the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Pacific Island Health Officers’ Association, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Oxitec. Aedes aegypti has spread globally and is the primary vector of diseases such as dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever. Deployments of the Friendly™ Aedes aegypti are planned to be conducted on Ebeye Island where, in 2019, a severe dengue outbreak forced a ‘State of Health emergency’.