Hong Kong will trial a \u201cmosquito-to-control-mosquito\u201d strategy next year, under which the insect males are infected with bacteria to prevent their offspring from reaching maturity, following the city\u2019s first local dengue fever case in over a year.<\/p>\n
Announcing the strategy on Sunday, Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene Donald Ng Man-kit said the government would consider stepping up mosquito control measures with a lower threshold, as the city\u2019s mosquito population rose more rapidly this month.<\/p>\n
The first locally recorded dengue fever case since 2024 was reported last week, involving a 21-year-old man who was bitten by mosquitoes near a road construction site in Penny\u2019s Bay on Lantau Island.<\/p>\n
Authorities have carried out mosquito control and other preventive measures at the site and in the surrounding area.<\/p>\n
Explaining the plan in a televised interview, Ng said that by infecting the males with a designated bacterium, any offspring produced after mating would fail to reach maturity.<\/p>\n
He added that the strategy was expected to reduce the overall mosquito population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong will trial a \u201cmosquito-to-control-mosquito\u201d strategy next year, under which the insect males are infected with bacteria…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[89758,32092,32086,205665,182325,70492,134,4431,32349,27554,111,139,69,205666],"class_list":["post-398218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-asian-tiger-mosquito","tag-chikungunya-fever","tag-dengue-fever","tag-donald-ng-man-kit","tag-environment-and-ecology-bureau","tag-foshan","tag-health","tag-hong-kong","tag-lantau-island","tag-mainland-china","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pennys-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}