Dengue fever is the fastest spreading viral disease. There are eight times as many infections every year as there were 20 years ago.
The World Health Organization recently sounded the alarm: half of the world's population is at risk of infection. Aedes aegypti are actually the problem, not the solution. Researchers in Australia infected mosquito eggs with a naturally occurring bacteria called Wolbachia. It was more difficult for the infected mosquitoes to reproduce in the host. This means that the likelihood of mosquitoes transmitting viruses to humans decreased.