More than 73,000 people have been infected and 671 hospitalized in the latest outbreak to hit the South American country, according to the government, which blames the El Nino weather phenomenon.
"We are looking for the larvae (of the mosquito) and fumigating house by house to combat the outbreak," Martin Gutierrez, health director for central Lima, told AFP.
The campaign started two weeks ago, with dozens of fumigators deployed in 20 of Peru's 25 departments, including the capital, with a potent insecticide. Читать дальше...