I popped in to UMAR one Saturday morning to work on some ongoing projects and saw the most intense insect control underway. I've never seen anything like it.
The place is mostly deserted on the weekends so there was nothing to stop total warfare. The few support staff could take shelter in any of the deserted buildings . It was a beautiful sight with the sun barely penetrating the clouds.
Dengue is always a potential threat at our low elevation, especially during rainy season. As a man who has suffered dengue twice, I would sooner ride my scooter at night without a helmet than watch the sun go down at Chahue without wearing a little bug spray. Downtown, trucks come by routinely spraying the residential areas but nothing like this. Our campus is in the thick of the jungle.
Some people don't believe in using bug spray and they may never catch dengue but all it takes is that one unlucky mosquito bite and you are off your feet for a week, if not dead. Fortunately, our administration takes it seriously and takes advantages of the weekends to deal with the threat with total warfare.
It looks to me like the mosquitoes lost.
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