Philippines village offering bounties for mosquitoes amid dengue fever outbreak
Wednesday, 19 February 2025 () A village in the Philippines is offering bounties for captured mosquitoes - dead or alive - amid a surge in dengue fever cases.
Filipinos in Manila's Addition Hills village exchange containers of mosquitoes for cash, as the government attempts to address rising dengue cases in the country. The "Peso for a Mosquito" project gives residents an incentive of one peso (US$0.017) for every five mosquitoes -- dead or alive -- turned...