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Find out how understanding flying foxes in Cairns can improve efforts to manage them and how researchers are working with mozzies to fight dengue.
Debugging dengue
Professor Scott Ritchie
(Medical Entomologist, James Cook University)
The insecticidal dengue control method has been challenged by releases of mosquitoes. Cairns leads the way, with two programs that use the bacteria Wolbachia to either prevent dengue transmission or get rid of the mozzie all together.
Oh Lordy, trouble with flying-foxes
Dr David Westcott
(Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO)
For 200 years we have struggled to manage our interactions with flying-foxes. Ranging from the farcical to the murderous our efforts have had limited success. Might understanding the ecology and behaviour of these animals improve our performance?
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