{"id":85284,"date":"2019-07-17T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T10:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8168"},"modified":"2019-07-17T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T10:22:10","slug":"in-battle-against-spread-of-chikungunya-and-dengue-icmr-finds-unlikely-ally-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-battle-against-spread-of-chikungunya-and-dengue-icmr-finds-unlikely-ally-bacteria\/","title":{"rendered":"In battle against spread of chikungunya and dengue, ICMR finds unlikely ally \u2014 bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has developed\na strain of the Aedes aegypti mosquito into which Wolbachia, a naturally\noccurring bacteria, is introduced. <\/li><li>The mosquito variant has been named the\nPuducherry strain. It was developed by ICMR in collaboration with World\nMosquito Program of Monash University, Australia.<\/li><li>Wolbachia bacteria is introduced into male and\nfemale Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the laboratory and released into the wild. Once\nWolbachia carrying mosquitoes are released, they breed with wild mosquitoes. <\/li><li>Over time, the majority of mosquitoes carry\nWolbachia. These mosquitoes have a reduced ability to transmit viruses to\npeople. Thus, it reduces the risk of Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever\noutbreaks.<\/li><li>Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are the primary vector that\ntransmit the Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever viruses.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has developed a strain of the Aedes aegypti mosquito into which Wolbachia, a naturally occurring bacteria, is introduced. The mosquito variant has been named the Puducherry strain. It was developed by ICMR in collaboration with World Mosquito Program of Monash University, Australia. Wolbachia bacteria is introduced into male and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-battle-against-spread-of-chikungunya-and-dengue-icmr-finds-unlikely-ally-bacteria\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In battle against spread of chikungunya and dengue, ICMR finds unlikely ally \u2014 bacteria<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[126,2544],"class_list":["post-85284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-dengue","tag-wolbachia","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704836798},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}