In 2014, I visited Yogyakarta, Indonesia to see how researchers at the World Mosquito Program were working to stop the spread of dengue fever–a painful virus that infects about 400 million people every year and kills more than 20,000. I even helped feed some of the Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes! In June of this year, the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of the @wmpglobal trial, which show that the Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes reduced the number of dengue cases by 77 percent and dengue hospitalizations by 86 percent. Read more about this incredible breakthrough on my blog (link in bio). #MosquitoWeek