Plumes of smoke wafted from the eaves and windows of ancestral homes and temples in Tengchong this week as a team of fumigators hunted for mosquitoes in the southern Chinese village.
Since early last month, authorities have launched a war on mosquitoes in an effort to eradicate a growing outbreak in Guangdong province of Chikungunya virus, a disease carried by the insects.
The campaign, using drones and even other predatory creatures, has mobilised China’s health apparatus in a way not seen since the mass lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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