Seeing the apparent helplessness of pub-lic health and environmental agencies in the face of this summer's renewed upsurge in cases of dengue fever, many members of the public enthusiastically suggested that the best way to wipe out the mosquitoes that transmit the disease would be to repopulate Taiwan's watercourses with a native fish that loves to eat mosquito larvae-the paradise fish.
暑期登革熱疫情再度延燒，衛生環保單位束手無策，民間熱心人士紛紛倡議復育愛吃孑孓的「蓋斑鬥魚」，以一舉消滅猖狂的病媒蚊。