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A health worker fumigates for mosquitoes to help mitigate the spread of dengue, outside a home at La Primavera shantytown in Piura, Peru, June 3, 2023.

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FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2016, file photo, an Aedes aegypti mosquito is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil.

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This 2014 photo made available by the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention shows a feeding female Anopheles gambiae mosquito.

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Image shows a mosquito. The Aedes aegypti mosquito is being targeted for sterilisation by Argentinian biologists in a bid to curb cases of dengue fever in the country.

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One of South America's largest cemeteries fumigated for dengue fever

Health brigades spray one of South America's largest cemeteries in Lima to eradicate the dengue-transmitting mosquito and collect larvae in an attempt to control a new outbreak of the endemic disease in Peru, which has killed about 30 people this year.

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In this Jan. 18, 2016, photo, a female Aedes aegypti mosquito, known to be a carrier of the Zika virus, acquires a blood meal on the arm of a researcher in Sao Paulo, Brazil

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