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The most serious issue threatening India, especially Delhi, is Dengue fever. In this year, so far 5,982 cases have been reported in Delhi alone and this is major outbreak in the last six years. Though the government has still not used the word epidemic, doctors have confirmed that it is an epidemic. An epidemic is a rapid spread of a particular infectious disease among a large group of people in a short span of time usually two or three weeks. So far 33 people have died in this year in Delhi due to dengue. The mosquito that causes dengue is the female Aedes aegypti mosquito. An Aedes mosquito can lay eggs 3 times in its lifetime and each time it lays about 100 eggs. Each egg grows into a larva in less than one day and the larva grows into a pupa in about three to four days. Finally the pupa grows into a mosquito in about two days. After the mosquito has grown, it bites a person and lays the eggs and the cycle will continue. When the mosquito bites an infected person, t