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Sri Lanka Mosquito Repellent Company Caught Breeding Mosquitoes
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by Amy Judd | June 30, 2009 at 02:48 pm
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A Sri Lanka mosquito repellent company has been caught breeding mosquitoes, and a Sri Lankan court has threatened to imprison the manager for six months for not destroying the mosquito breeding grounds to help stop the dengue fever.
Sri Lanka has had an outbreak of dengue fever that has already killed over 150 people this year and infected about 13,479 people.
"The court fined the superintendent of a mosquito coil company for failing to destroy mosquito breeding places after we found larvae in several empty cans inside the premises," said Rohana De Silva, Attagalla public health inspector.
The superintendent has already been fined 1,500 rupees and received a suspended sentence of six months hard labor, which can be renewed if the company does not keep the breeding grounds down.
The country has launched a campaign to fight the spread of dengue through destroying the breeding grounds, and spraying insecticide and not allow fresh water to stand for too long.
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Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (3)
at 15:36 on June 30th, 2009
That's awful ...
at 19:13 on June 30th, 2009
This is so unethical and criminal they should be jailed and fined and this with extreme severity.
at 19:54 on June 30th, 2009
People there are already suffering and these criminals are making it worse.
Amy, Thank you for posting this.