Brazil releases Aedes aegypti mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia, a naturally occurring bacterium that reduces - without eliminating - the mosquito's ability to tra…
Wolbito do Brasil's stated ambition is to reach more than 40 municipalities by the end of 2026, with a Ministry of Health commitment to extend coverage to roughly 7 mill…
A joint venture of the World Mosquito Program, Fiocruz and the Institute of Molecular Biology of Paraná opened what is described as the world's largest Wolbachia mosquit…
Brazil's Ministry of Health formally incorporated Wolbachia into its national dengue strategy as six additional municipalities began implementation. The same year, Brazi…
A quasi-experimental study of four Niterói release zones (83 km², about 373,000 residents) found Wolbachia deployment associated with a 69% reduction in dengue, 56% in c…
Brazil moved from pilot-scale releases to large-scale deployment, reaching an estimated 3.2 million people across its initial municipalities - the point at which the pro…
Following government approval and more than two years of community engagement and monitoring, Brazil conducted its first field releases of Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes.…
Building on earlier Australian field trials, the World Mosquito Program was established at Monash University to develop and scale the Wolbachia method globally as a not-…
Researchers led by Professor Scott O'Neill published findings that Wolbachia could interfere with dengue virus replication inside Aedes aegypti - the scientific foundati…
Wolbachia pipientis was first identified in the common house mosquito, Culex pipiens, by researchers Marshall Hertig and S. Burt Wolbach - decades before anyone linked i…
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