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Vector reduction or elimination is still essential to the control of certain infectious diseases such as dengue. Dengue infection is not rare. Annually, 50 million cases, 500,000 cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever, and 22,000 deaths occur. The cutaneous signs include macules, papules, and petechiae; a positive tourniquet test is common. No vaccine or antiviral is effective against the causative flavivirus.
Small pools of standing water are the favored breeding place for the vector mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Researchers conducted critical new vector control experiments in a public cemetery in the Amazonian city of Iquitos, Peru. They seeded mosquito resting places in the cemetery with the insect juvenile h…