In an effort to slow down the spread of the dengue disease, researchers at Kaohsiung city, Taiwan, have used robotic vehicles to identify and eliminate the breeding sources of Aedes mosquitoes - with great results.
The study was carried out by a team at the Taiwan National Mosquito-Borne Diseases Control Research Center.
Artists rendering of experimental setups / Liu et al., 2023, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, CC-BY 4.0
Image credit: Liu et al., 2023, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, CC-BY 4.0
Dengue fever is an infectious disease caused by the dengue virus and spread by several mosquito species in the genus Aedes, which also spread chikungunya, yellow fever and zika.
Due to Taiwan's rapid urbanisation process, its city sewers have become breeding grounds for Aedes...