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Brazilian biologists Roberto Costa Peres (L) and Mariane da Rocha Davi get ready to release 10,000 Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with the Wolbachia bacterium –which reduces mosquito transmitted diseases such as dengue and chikungunya by shortening adult lifespan, affect mosquito reproduction and interfere with pathogen replication– in Tubiacanga, Ilha do Governador, Rio de Janeiro, on October 2, 2014. The mosquitoes are expected to quickly infiltrate the insect population and stop the spread of the disease. Small-scale trials have already been conducted in communities in northern Australia. AFP PHOTO/CHRISTOPHE SIMON