Taiwan's health ministry is urging its people who are elderly, very young, or with poor immunity to avoid traveling to China because of the uptick in respiratory illnesses in the country.
In November 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that MosquitoMate, Inc. had submitted plans to infect live male mosquitoes with a bacteria called "Wolbachia pipientis," which enhances WNV infection.
The lab, previously operating under the company name Prestige BioTech, was found to contain labeled viruses and bacteria including hepatitis B and C, dengue, HIV, herpes, tuberculosis, rubella, coronavirus, and malaria during an inspection in March.