Combating Zika virus with guppy fish in India

Photo taken Feb. 13, 2016, in Mysuru, India, shows freshwater guppies (poecilia reticulata). Guppies feed on mosquito larvae and thereby keep the breeding of mosquitoes in check to a large extent amid a global alert over the mosquito-borne Zika virus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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