In this Friday, Sept. 2, 2016 photo, a municipal worker fumigates an area to check the spread of mosquito-borne diseases in New Delhi, India. This year the Indian capital has seen the numbers for Chikungunya soar to more than 3,000 from just 64 last year, according to government data. Each year the city seems equally unprepared for the epidemic of Dengue and Chikungunya, viral ailments transmitted by mosquitoes, that arrives promptly in August and lingers for months sickening tens of thousands and killing dozens. It's a cycle that's played out every year after the monsoon rains have filled puddles and open drains and the warm, damp weather is perfectly suited for swarms of mosquitoes. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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