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| 0:41.0 | You're listening to discuss costs. world's first trials of genetically altered mosquitoes in an inhabited area |
| 0:54.6 | afflicted by dengue fever. Details including the location in a moment, but first |
| 1:00.4 | the scale of the problem. With 2.5 million people worldwide affected, |
| 1:05.8 | Dengue is the most common viral mosquito-born disease. |
| 1:09.4 | Symptoms can range from mild flu-like to severe bone-crushing pain explaining Dengue's alternative name, |
| 1:16.7 | Breakbone fever. |
| 1:18.3 | Deng is a huge problem. It's the second most important mosquito-born disease after malaria. |
| 1:22.3 | There's no vaccine as with malaria but |
| 1:24.2 | there's also no drugs unlike malaria. People that I know have had malaria and |
| 1:28.0 | Dengue say that Dengue is worse. The mosquito bites during the daytime so bed nets are no, because of course you sleep under those, but that's at night. |
| 1:35.0 | The only method of controlling Dengue is what's called vector control, which is to say mosquito control, |
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