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A health worker sprays an area to prevent dengue fever infections in Segambut, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 12 January 2016. Statistic provided by the National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC), indicates that a total of 2,404 dengue cases have been recorded nationwide from 03 to 07 January. With the hot weather, the life cycle of Aedes mosquitoes, from eggs to adulthood will be shortened to seven days and this will increase the mosquito population during the period," Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a press statement on 11 January. Malaysia recorded 336 dengue deaths on the highest ever last year (2015) as it saw a whopping 50 percent jump in the number of fatalities due to mosquito-borne viral disease compared to 2014. (Photo by Fazry Ismail/EPA)
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