SALVADOR,
Brazil — Nearly a quarter of a million soldiers, sailors and other
military personnel began fanning through Brazilian cities over the
weekend as part of an ambitious campaign to combat the mosquitoes that
are spreading Zika, the virus believed to be linked to a surge in infants born with severe brain damage.
Yet
instead of insecticide and repellent, the troops were armed with wads
of fliers that instruct residents how to reduce the breeding grounds for
Aedes aegypti,