1. Even treated city water, once it has been sitting in the sun a day or so, will breed mosquitoes. 2. In Mali, he toured a clinic that breeds mosquitoes to try to fight malaria. 3. One added a plea for the elimination of the stagnant ponds that breed mosquitoes and of the rabid dogs that threaten children. 4. Public health officials say most mosquitoes are bred in back yards. 5. Q. I have a pond on my property, about the size of a back yard, and is it ever breeding mosquitoes. 6. Stagnant waters breed mosquitoes that swarm the streets of Dhaka, leading relief workers to fear an outbreak of malaria. 7. With a little more bad luck, all the new standing water might even breed mosquitoes, residents say. 8. Yet the water here must breed extraordinary mosquitoes. 9. After years of drought, some parts of the country received normal seasonal rains last year that helped breed mosquitoes, which transmit malaria to humans. 10. Communicable diseases could run rampant, spreading from open sewers that breed mosquitoes, he said. |