Larvae, from Bayah to Holland

June 2, 2009

The mosquito larvae hunting season has arrived. Each week Rizky Wisnubaroto, a student at the University of Indonesia (UI) Faculty of Medicine, travels hundreds of kilometers from Jakarta to Bayah, Lebak regency, Banten, to collect larvae. Rizky and friends must search from house to house. They peek into everything with a hollow space: flowerpots, drainage ditches, water tanks, pots, and so forth. “We mustn’t miss anything,” said this 21-ye

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