The Chinese team launched a search for microbes that, like Wolbachia, might help control the disease from within the mosquito. They focused on Yunnan province, parts of which are infested with Asian tiger mosquitoes (Aedes albopictus), a species that can transmit dengue and Zika viruses.
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