Guppy fish can be one of the five most effective forms of dengue control, as these tiny fish can be placed in water vessels in and around homes, where they will eat the larvae of dengue-transmitting mosquitoes.

Upscale neighbourhoods in Banani, Bashundhara, Uttara, Dhanmondi, Mohakhali DOHS, and Mintoo Road are major breeding grounds of dengue and chikungunya spreading Aedes mosquitos, found a survey.

Against a backdrop of the chikungunya outbreak, the health and family welfare ministry in association with the two Dhaka city

Brazil is planning to fight the Zika virus by zapping millions of male mosquitoes with gamma rays to sterilize them and stop the spread of the virus linked to thousands of birth defects.