TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Research to overcome Dengue hemorrhagic fever or DHF in Indonesia continues to be carried out. Recent research conducted by the World Mosquito Program or WMP Yogyakarta shows that bacteria Wolbachia proven successful in reducing the number of DHF.
Reporting from the official website of Universitas Gadjah Mada or UGM, the research conducted since 2017 has proven its effectiveness in reducing the incidence rate DBD in 35 of 45 urban villages in Yogyakarta City. “The Wolbachia method is confirmed to be effective in reducing 77 percent of DHF cases in the city of Yogyakarta,” said the main researcher of WMP Yogyakarta, Adi Utarini.
This study used 12 out of 24 districts in Yogyakarta City and part of Bantul Regency which were randomly selected to treat the Wolbachia intervention. “In 12 other areas without intervention, after eight months since the release of mosquitoes, we control dengue fever patients who go to health clinics,” said Adi.
The researchers monitored mosquitoes and recruited dengue fever patients at the puskesmas with a total of 8,144 patients with an age range of 3-45 years. All these patients came from 18 health clinics that participated in this study.
As a result, in locations where Wolbachia has been spread, it has been shown to be able to reduce dengue cases by up to 77 percent. This intervention is much more effective than the administration of dengue vaccine. In terms of financing is also claimed to be cheaper.
The professor at the Faculty of Public Health and Nursing UGM explained that Wolbachia is a bacterium that can grow naturally on insects, especially mosquitoes, except for mosquitoes. temples of the Egyptians.
Wolbachia can paralyze the dengue virus. If there is an aedes aegypti mosquito sucking blood containing the dengue virus, it will be resistant so that it will not spread into the human body.
“Research WMP Yogyakarta has produced evidence that in the areas we spread mosquito the dengue rate decreased by 77.1 percent and the hospitalization rate due to dengue decreased by 86.1 percent. This intervention is more effective than the dengue vaccine,” said Adi, quoted from page sehatnegeriku.kemkes.go.id.
GRACE AMIN SIREGAR
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