Mosquito Parasite May Help Fight Dengue Fever

Many mosquitoes living in tropical regions carry a lethal plague: dengue fever. Despite attempts, no successful dengue fever vaccine has been found, so scientists have infected them with a parasite with the hope of reducing the insects' life expectancy and reducing dengue fever infection. Now they have found that as well as reducing the insects' lifespan, the parasite increases the mosquitoes' activity.

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