11 Photos That Show The Human Side Of The Fight Against Zika In Salvador
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The faces behind the numbers.
Photographer Mauricio Susin took a series of photos on the Dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya epidemics, each of which is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito in Salvador.
The following pictures and descriptions were taken from his Instagram profile.
On February 13, 6.6 thousand soldiers were mobilized to fight against Aedes aegypti in Bahia.
These officers work together to prepare for the fight with repellent.
They visited neighborhoods going door-to-door.
Military and health officials went to each house to train inhabitants in how to fight against the mosquitoes and identify possible places where they can reproduce.
Many of the people the soldiers visited already had the disease.
Antonio, 8 years old, lives in one of the houses visited by the military. The house was abandoned and facilities were poor, and his mother and sister had zika last year.