Resurgent Mosquitoes, Dengue in Cuba

摘要

Once again the mosquito is the victor. If ever a disease-causing mosquito might be controllable, it seemed to be Ancles aegypti, which, unlike most other species, Breeds only in and around houses in numanmade containers: And if ever a government should be able to control the mosquito, it is rhe totalitarian government of Cuba. But the Cuban effort, like every other attempt to wipe out a mosquito species from a country, appears to have failed. According to local reports, an epidemic of dengue fever, aviral disease spread by Aedes aegypti, has reappeared in Santiago, Caba's second-largest city, and spread to the-middle and west of the island. As one Aedes aegypti expert put it, "Cubans have been able to maintain war on [the mos-quito]. They may havelost it."