<p>China has set up the world's largest mosquito factory in northwestern Guangzhou province to tackle dengue fever by releasing one million sterilised mosquitoes every week in a bid to dilute their population with insects that don't carry the disease.<br /><br /></p>.<p>In Guangzhou's Science City area, the team leader, Xi Zhiyong, is in charge of releasing the produced mosquitoes to the Shazi Island every week to combat dengue fever.<br /><br />This was the first trial test in the field and it has been proved to reduce the mosquito population by 90 per cent, state run Global Times reported.<br /><br />Releasing sterilised mosquito to the wild is one of several innovative attempts to tackle dengue fever by diluting the mosquito population with insects that don't carry the disease.<br />The mosquito-borne sickness causes pain so agonising it is also known as "breakbone disease".<br /><br />Last year China had the worst outbreak in two decades, with more than 47,000 cases, almost all in the Guangdong province.<br /><br />Catch one strain the person will be immune to the virus in the future but if bitten by a mosquito carrying another one of the strains, the chances to develop severe dengue, also known as dengue haemorrhagic fever very high, the report said.<br /><br />No vaccine or treatment is available and recently it has caused about 22,000 deaths a year worldwide, mostly among children. <br /></p>
<p>China has set up the world's largest mosquito factory in northwestern Guangzhou province to tackle dengue fever by releasing one million sterilised mosquitoes every week in a bid to dilute their population with insects that don't carry the disease.<br /><br /></p>.<p>In Guangzhou's Science City area, the team leader, Xi Zhiyong, is in charge of releasing the produced mosquitoes to the Shazi Island every week to combat dengue fever.<br /><br />This was the first trial test in the field and it has been proved to reduce the mosquito population by 90 per cent, state run Global Times reported.<br /><br />Releasing sterilised mosquito to the wild is one of several innovative attempts to tackle dengue fever by diluting the mosquito population with insects that don't carry the disease.<br />The mosquito-borne sickness causes pain so agonising it is also known as "breakbone disease".<br /><br />Last year China had the worst outbreak in two decades, with more than 47,000 cases, almost all in the Guangdong province.<br /><br />Catch one strain the person will be immune to the virus in the future but if bitten by a mosquito carrying another one of the strains, the chances to develop severe dengue, also known as dengue haemorrhagic fever very high, the report said.<br /><br />No vaccine or treatment is available and recently it has caused about 22,000 deaths a year worldwide, mostly among children. <br /></p>