{"id":69589,"date":"2025-02-20T16:33:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/20\/philippines-officials-offer-cash-for-mosquitoes-amid-rise-in-dengue-cases"},"modified":"2025-02-20T16:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:33:53","slug":"philippines-officials-offer-cash-for-mosquitoes-amid-rise-in-dengue-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69589","title":{"rendered":"Philippines officials offer cash for mosquitoes amid rise in dengue cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in village near the capital line up with their haul, where a mosquito zapper and some pesos await<\/p>\n<p>Village officials in the Philippines are handing out cash rewards to residents who capture mosquitoes in a bid to combat an outbreak of dengue.<\/p>\n<p>At the Wednesday launch, residents from the village of Addition Hills in metropolitan Manila lined up with plastic cups and bags containing their captures as they waited to receive their bounty: one Philippine peso (1.7 US cents) for every five mosquitoes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/20\/philippines-officials-offer-cash-for-mosquitoes-amid-rise-in-dengue-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in village near the capital line up with their haul, where a mosquito zapper and some pesos awaitVillage officials in the Philippines are handing out cash rewards to residents who capture mosquitoes in a bid to combat an outbreak of dengue.At th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3261,777,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-dengue-fever","category-insects","category-philippines"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69590,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69589\/revisions\/69590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}