Scientists find bacterium can halt dengue virus transmission

Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 17:07 in Health & Medicine

Dengue fever -- caused by a virus transmitted by mosquitoes -- threatens 2.5 billion people each year and there is no vaccine or treatment. New research by Michigan State University entomologists has found that a bacterium can stop dengue viruses from replicating in the mosquitoes.

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