The Big Picture: Fumigate

A worker, left, fumigates the area with a pesticide

A worker, left, fumigates an area with pesticide to stop the breeding of mosquitoes in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan health authorities continued efforts to curb the spread of dengue, commonly transmitted by infected mosquitoes, as the number of related deaths rose across the country.

Photo: Eranga Jayawardena/AP

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