{"id":30010,"date":"2023-11-01T22:28:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T02:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=30010"},"modified":"2023-11-01T22:28:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T02:28:14","slug":"dengue-rates-plunged-after-release-of-lab-altered-mosquitoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=30010","title":{"rendered":"Dengue rates plunged after release of lab-altered mosquitoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/66697248_1004.webp\" width=\"233\" height=\"102\" \/>The world sees up to 100 million cases and 22,000 deaths due to dengue every year. Researchers may have found a way to cut those numbers significantly.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/dengue-rates-plummeted-in-colombia-after-lab-infected-mosquito-release\/a-67268943\">Dengue rates plunged after release of lab-altered mosquitoes<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I repeat my call to eliminate <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?tag=mosquitos\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"656\" target=\"_blank\">mosquitos<\/a>.  Yes, it will cause disruptions in the food chain.  Yes, some other animals might die.  Don&#8217;t care.  Imagine how wonderful it would be to explore the great outdoors without being eaten alive.<br>These bastards need to be taken out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;They found that the introduction of the infected mosquitoes into local mosquito populations was &#8220;associated with a significant reduction&#8221;\u00a0in dengue of up to 97% in each city compared to ten years prior to the start of the experiment.<br>They also conducted a case control study in Medell\u00edn. There, they said they found a causal association between the deployment of the infected mosquitoes and reduced cases of dengue.\u00a0<br>The researchers said results showed a 47% drop in dengue in neighborhoods where the mosquitoes had been released.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world sees up to 100 million cases and 22,000 deaths due&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[657,656,140],"class_list":["post-30010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-dengue","tag-mosquitos","tag-paul","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30012,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30010\/revisions\/30012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}