Cold caution


Fighting back: A Capital Development Authority worker spraying insecticide near residential buildings in Islamabad, Pakistan. Soon Iceland will need to start mosquito fogging too. — Getty Images/AFP/TNS

IF you want to live somewhere without mosquitoes, you’re running out of options. One of the world’s last remaining mosquito-free zones has been infiltrated by the bloodsuckers.

Three specimens of Culiseta annulata were found in the southwest of Iceland, leaving Antarctica as the only remaining refuge from the biters.

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