We all insist on putting the mosquito net up at night, when the insect behind France’s first local chikungunya case bites in broad daylight
France’s first locally transmitted chikungunya case reveals a uncomfortable truth: the mosquito spreading tropical diseases doesn’t follow the rules we learned as children. It bites at breakfast, not bedtime. With hundreds of cases now spreading without travelers involved, the protection strategy most families rely on has become dangerously outdated.