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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Swathi Vadlamudi

What an idea to curb mosquito menace

GHMC’s Entomology wing is resorting to ‘make believe notices’ in order to enforce the weekly protocol of emptying stagnant water in the households to prevent breeding of Aedes aegypti mosquito that causes dengue fever.

Entomology officials checking random homes, as part of the inspections, are issuing handwritten notices to residents in whose houses larvae are found in stored water.

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