As state public health workers are looking for standing waters where mosquitoes could be, Brazil stand still amid nationwide efforts to stem the surge of denge fever in the country during its key tourist season in February. Brazil Dengue Outbreak: A health worker sprays insecticide to kill the Aedes aegypti mosquito to help mitigate a dengue outbreak, at the Nova …
RIO DE JANEIRO — The small team of state public health workers slalomed between auto parts strewn across a Rio de Janeiro junkyard, looking for standing water where mosquitoes might have laid their eggs. “It’s difficult not to have mosquitoes here.” Earlier in the month, just days before Rio kicked of its world-famous Carnival festivities, the city joined several states …
