Pest control. Spraying pesticides to exterminate mosquitoes during the Chikungunya epidemic on Reunion Island. The Chikungunya virus is an alphavirus,
Pest control. Spraying pesticides to exterminate mosquitoes during the Chikungunya epidemic on Reunion Island. The Chikungunya virus is an alphavirus, which is transmitted by mosquitoes and causes a rare form of viral fever. Symptoms include a high fever, rash and arthritic joint pain. There is no vaccine for the virus, so mosquito extermination is the principal means of fighting an epidemic. Photographed in January 2006.
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