Sri Lanka enlisted its armed forces to fight the country’s worst dengue outbreak in nearly a decade, turning the same air force drones once reserved for surveillance and inspection towards a domestic target: standing rooftop water where mosquitoes breed. As infections climbed past 77,000 and the death toll reached 56 this year, the drones have been scanning neighborhoods from above for dormant pools accumulated during the current southwest monso…
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