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Mr. AEDES AEGYPTI is here!!

It is 6 in the evening and i just unfolded my shirt sleeves. No, i am not expecting any dignitary this moment. What i am expecting is an AEDES AEGYPTI. Because Mr. Aedes has been quite random and unpredictable to the people of Delhi. Mr. Aedes gets out for an evening fly and has it's evening snack on some human's body biting and sucking some blood, contaminating it further. And that person is left with decreasing blood platelets, adding a score to the Dengue headcount.  As i write this, i hear of a Dengue victim's father inquiring about persons with similar blood group on phone because blood banks are not trading any. They are instead short on any of the blood groups. So coming back to what i were saying, i just unfolded my shirt sleeves as a precaution because i do not wish to be the evening snack of the AEGYPTI species. I might sound a bit retro and a bit old for my age friends, but cover yourself up. For it is not just the Indian males who like the skin...