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  "id": 5025653,
  "title": "Releasing mosquitoes to fight dengue: How Singapore took Project Wolbachia from lab to heartlands",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/releasing-mosquitoes-to-fight-dengue-how-singapore-took-project-5025653",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-02T05:26:27.000Z",
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    "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/project-wolbachia-mosquitoes-dengue-aedes-6354401"
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  "summary": "Project Wolbachia, which started in 2016, uses specially bred male mosquitoes to suppress the Aedes aegypti population and reduce the risk of dengue.",
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        "outlet": "Straits Times",
        "title": "EU studying feasibility of running its version of Singapore’s Project Wolbachia to fight dengue",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/eu-studying-feasibility-of-running-its-version-of-singapores-project",
        "published": "2026-09-01T12:55:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "Releasing mosquitoes to fight dengue: How Singapore took Project Wolbachia from lab to heartlands",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/releasing-mosquitoes-to-fight-dengue-how-singapore-took-project",
        "published": "2026-09-02T05:26:27.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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