It wasn't always this way
January 31, 2016 1:59 PM   Subscribe

Impoverished coastal city in Brazil becomes epicenter for Zika outbreak Massive eradication efforts in the 1940s and 1950s allowed Brazil to be declared free of the Aedes mosquito in 1958, but over the decades the insect returned, slowly encroaching from neighboring countries and finding fertile breeding ground in Brazil's sprawling, unplanned cities, with their limited potable water systems and garbage collection.

A 2013 article about the infrastructure problems in Brazil: The road to hell

It isn't all bad news: Brazil’s Distributed Generation Connections Triple In 2015
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This post was deleted for the following reason: We have an active Zika virus thread from just this morning; you can drop the links in there. -- Eyebrows McGee



 

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