In one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favelas, local children raising mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria in margarine tubs are a key part of Brazil’s most successful ever initiative against infectious disease
Kristin Bethge
VITÓRIA LAĺS DE SOUZA GOMES, a shy 14-year-old with long, dark hair, pulls aside cables hanging from a lamp post and climbs on a platform with a view over her neighbourhood, Complexo da Maré. With more than 130,000 residents, this sprawl of 16 favelas, or slums, is one of the largest and most densely packed parts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Vitória jumps down and leads me into a house. It is cramped, humid and hot. Vitória pushes past her mother, into the kitchen, and pulls out an empty margarine tub from a drawer – it is her mosquito breeding station.
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