I fully expected this to be another article on wolbachia. It's a pleasant surprise to see another microbe that can help block malaria in mosquitoes. Between the

I fully expected this to be another article on wolbachia. It's a pleasant surprise to see another microbe that can help block malaria in mosquitoes. Between the two a good dent might be put into that and other diseases. Wolbachia was shown to help with dengue too, and at least somewhat with Chikungunya and Zika - which are viral. This sort of trend looks hopeful for the future. If we're really fortunate and have the people and funds made available to do this sort of research, perhaps we could see West Nile, yellow fever, Lyme disease, bubonic plague, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and other bite-passed pathogens severely curtailed. https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1007333 https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j... https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11772 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11772 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6085076/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6085076/