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PHOTOS: Combating the Zika virus
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A health worker stands in the Sambadrome as he sprays insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmits the Zika virus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. [AP Photo/Leo Correa]
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In this Jan. 26, 2016 photo, a municipal worker sprays insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmit the Zika virus, at the Imbiribeira neighborhood in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. Brazil once succeeded in eliminating the Aedes, which is well adapted to humans, lives within people’s homes and can breed in just a bottle cap of stagnant water. Massive eradication efforts in the 1940s and 1950s allowed the country to be declared free of the mosquito in 1958, but over the decades the insect returned. [AP Photo/Felipe Dana]
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Young residents run away and others cover their faces as municipal worker sprays insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmits the Zika virus at the Imbiribeira neighborhood in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. [AP Photo/Felipe Dana]
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Municipal workers sprays insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmits the Zika virus at the Imbiribeira neighborhood in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. [AP Photo/Felipe Dana]
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A municipal worker sprays insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmits the Zika virus at the Imbiribeira neighborhood in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. [AP Photo/Felipe Dana]
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A municipal worker gestures during an operation to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmits the Zika virus in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. [AP Photo/Felipe Dana]
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Municipal workers pause to refill the insecticide sprayer during an operation to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmits the Zika virus at the Imbiribeira neighborhood in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. [AP Photo/Felipe Dana]
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A fumigation brigade sprays an area of Chacabuco Park in a Aedes mosquito control effort, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. [AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko]
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A city worker fumigates to combat the Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes that transmit the Zika virus, at the San Judas Community in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. [AP Photo/Salvador Melendez]
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A city worker fumigates insecticide to combat the Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes that transmit the Zika virus, at the San Judas Community in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. [AP Photo/Salvador Melendez]
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A city worker fumigates insecticide to combat the Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes that transmit the Zika virus, at the San Judas Community in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. [AP Photo/Salvador Melendez]
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A city worker helps homebound Simon Jose Valentin, 94, leave his home while it is fumigated to combat the Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes that transmit the Zika virus, at the San Judas Community in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. [AP Photo/Salvador Melendez]
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Health workers fumigate to prevent Dengue, Chikunguya and Zika virus, at El Angel cemetery, in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Jan 20, 2016. [AP Photo/Martin Mejia]
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Carmen Chicas Mejia, 82, covers her mouth and nose while city workers fumigate her home to combat the Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes that transmit the Zika virus, at the San Judas Community in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. [AP Photo/Salvador Melendez]
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A man works on a fence amidst a cloud of insecticide as city workers fumigate to combat the Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes that transmits the Zika virus, at the San Judas Community in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. [AP Photo/Salvador Melendez]
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Gleyse Kelly da Silva holds her daughter Maria Giovanna, who was born with microcephaly, as she undergoes visual exams at the Altino Ventura foundation in Recife, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016. Brazilian officials still say they believe there’s a sharp increase in cases of microcephaly and strongly suspect the Zika virus, which first appeared in the country last year, is to blame. The concern is strong enough that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month warned pregnant women to reconsider visits to areas where Zika is present. [AP Photo/Felipe Dana]
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In this Jan. 26, 2016 photo, Daniele Ferreira dos Santos, center, holds her son Juan Pedro as she walks with her older daughter Jennipher Karine near her house in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. [AP Photo/Felipe Dana]
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In this Jan. 26, 2016 photo, Daniele Ferreira dos Santos, center right, stands outside her house as her ex-husband holds their son Juan Pedro, who was born with microcephaly, outside her house in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. Almost from birth, Pedro cried ceaselessly, as do many babies with microcephaly. [AP Photo/Felipe Dana]
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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.