Chinese authorities are using nets, spraying insecticide and even deploying drones to fight the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus, which has infected thousands of people. Authorities had reported more than 7,

China has deployed ‘cannibal’ mosquitoes, larvae-eating fish and surveillance drones as it battles to curb an unprecedented outbreak of chikungunya virus.

China is attempting to tackle an outbreak of the chikungunya virus with more than 7,000 cases of the disease already being reported. Chikungunya is spread by mosquitoes and causes fever and joint pain,