Targeted Spraying Technique Tackles Dengue (7 of 7) (IMAGE)

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Targeted Spraying Technique Tackles Dengue (7 of 7)

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Targeted indoor residual spraying in Aedes aegypti resting sites performed by Queensland Health's DART team. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 17 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by G.M. Vazquez-Prokopecat Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and colleagues was titled, "Combining contact tracing with targeted indoor residual spraying significantly reduces dengue transmission."

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[Credit: Paul Zborowski, Close-Up Photolibrary]

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