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Fortune
Prarthana Prakash

As France braces for 15 million Olympics visitors, its ‘dengue detectives’ are hunting for tiger mosquitoes to prevent an outbreak

person seen laying a mosquito trap at the side of a road (Credit: Thomas Samson—AFP/Getty Images)

When people visit romantic Paris this summer, the last thing they want to think about is possibly contracting dengue fever. 

The mosquito-borne disease has been on the uptick in France for several months amid warmer temperatures. 

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