Bill Gates at science conference

Описание: (26 Oct 2016) Philanthropist Bill Gates on Wednesday said his foundation was teaming up with the British and American governments to expand testing of a new bacteria it's hoped will stop the spread of Zika virus.
Gates said researchers are pitting one infection against another, trying to spread a form of bacteria across mosquito populations in the hope that the microorganisms will interfere with the transmission of the worrying virus.
The Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK-based Wellcome Trust will expand field tests in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and the city of Bello in northwest Colombia.
The tests revolve around the Wolbachia genus of bacteria, which has been shown to hamper the spread of viruses when it's carried by mosquitoes.
The virus doesn't occur naturally in Aedes aegypti - the tropical mosquitoes primarily responsible for spreading viruses such as Zika, yellow fever, dengue fever and chikungunya - but researchers have spent more than 10 years working to coax the bacteria into infecting that particular breed of insect in a bid to derail the diseases it carries.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Gates said the 18 (m) million US dollars roll-out would finally test whether the concept can work.

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