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McCausland's dance follows a performance in 2021 from actor Rose Ayling-Ellis who is deaf and paid tribute to the deaf community by dancing for a short while with her partner Giovanni Pernice in complete silence.

It follows a performance in 2021 from actor Rose Ayling-Ellis who is deaf.

Ayling-Ellis and her dance partner Giovanni Pernice paid tribute to the deaf community by dancing for a short while in complete silence.

Scientists believe they have found a quirky way to fight mosquito-spread diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and Zika - by turning male insects deaf so they struggle to mate and breed.

The researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, who have published their work in the journal PNAS, said the effect of the gene knock-out was "absolute", as mating by deaf males was entirely eliminated.