Making mosquitoes to fight mosquitoes to prevent dengue •

Making mosquitoes to fight mosquitoes to prevent dengue

Tags: Aedes, Asia, Cytoplasmic incompatibility, Dengue, Genetic biocontrol, Population modification/replacement, Wolbachia
A. George, Times of India, 2021.

In 2017, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted that the national capital needed to be made mosquito-free. The same year, his Kerala counterpart, Pinaray Vijayan, called a three-day state-wide cleanliness drive as hospitals filled with dengue patients.