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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Paris wards off tiger mosquito scourge ahead of olympics - What They Never Told You

French health authorities set up traps to collect eggs and study tiger mosquito population near the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis, on the outskirts of Paris, on 28 May, 2024. © AFP - Thomas Samson

A campaign to monitor and trap tiger mosquitos in Paris is in full swing weeks ahead of the Olympics. Authorities are worried that travellers will exacerbate a surge in diseases such as dengue fever.

On the outskirts of the Stade de France, in the north of Paris where a number of Olympic events will be held, Kevin Meignan checks a nesting trap installed a few weeks ago in a grass-lined pathway.

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