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PHOTOS: Combating the Zika virus

Countries across Latin America are increasing fumigation efforts in order to halt the progress of the Zika virus, found in the Aedes mosquito. Massive eradication efforts in the 1940s and 1950s allowed Brazil to be declared free of the mosquito in 1958, but over the decades the insect has returned. The Aedes is well adapted to humans, lives within people’s homes and can breed in just a bottle cap of stagnant water.