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Mosquito Experiment Halts Dengue Fever
蚊子實驗阻止了登革熱
A successful experiment to combat a dengue fever outbreak in Australia has given scientists new hope in halting mosquito-borne diseases. In 2014, scientists infected a large number of captive mosquitoes with a bacteria that prevents insects from transmitting viruses. That year citizens of Townsville, Australia including schoolchildren, helped release the special mosquitoes in areas where they normally breed. For the past four years, there has not been a dengue fever outbreak in this region. Scientists hope to repeat this experiment on a larger scale in regions where other mosquito-borne diseases such as Zika and malaria are problematic.
一項針對澳大利亞登革熱疫情的成功實驗為科學家們提供了阻止蚊子傳播疾病的新希望。2014年，科學家用大量的細菌感染了蚊子，這些細菌可以防止昆蟲傳播病毒。那一年，澳大利亞湯斯維爾的市民，包括學童，幫忙把這種特殊的蚊子投放在蚊子正常繁殖的地區。在過去四年中，該地區沒有爆發過登革熱疫情。科學家希望以更大的規模在其他受蚊子傳播疾病困擾的地區重復這項實驗，如寨卡病毒和瘧疾感染區。
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