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Wide of two men walking down main Pedestrian Street in San Luis carrying glass container and boxes2. Medium of two men walking down main Pedestrian Street in San Luis with glass container carrying...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eSan Luis, Argentina - 13th May, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of two men walking down main Pedestrian Street in San Luis carrying glass container and boxes\u003cbr/\u003e2. Medium of two men walking down main Pedestrian Street in San Luis with glass container carrying frogs filling frame\u003cbr/\u003e3. Medium of little boy on pedestrian street looking towards and gesturing towards glass container full of frogs on street\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close oblique shot on glass container with frogs and people walking down Pedestrian Street large in background\u003cbr/\u003e5. Medium of Daniel Sosa (Local Councillor) holding frog and talking to passers by\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close on frog in hand of Daniel Sosa as little boy looks into glass container\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Daniel Sosa, Councillor, San Luis, Argentina\u003cbr/\u003e\"What we want is a biological control so the aero-toxins do not kill us. In the end we will not be killed by the dengue but we will actually be killed by the aero-toxins, we will be killed by the aerosols, by the pesticides. So we have to begin to look for biological mechanisms and the frog is one of them.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSan Luis, Argentina - 5th April, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e8. Medium low angle shot on boxes for frogs on Pedestrian Street\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide shot of Daniel Sosa and companion giving out informative flyers on the 'Adopt a Frog' campaign to passers by\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close of frogs in bucket of water on street\u003cbr/\u003e11. Medium shot and pan of 'Adopt a Frog' campaigner giving frog in box to local resident and resident walking away with box surrounded by family\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Voxpop, Jorge Segovia, Local Resident, San Luis, Argentina\u003cbr/\u003e\"One grain of sand for this campaign for the whole of Argentina, it's that we have to begin to think that this is a problem for us all. So it's an idea that one might discover that to have a frog in your home is a help.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Voxpop, Maria Ferro, Local Resident, San Luis, Argentina\u003cbr/\u003e \"The truth is that I do not want to take one to my house, I am impressed but well if it is a way to prevent it, well what else can I do?.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Voxpop, Luciana Compte, Local Resident, San Luis, Argentina\u003cbr/\u003e\"Everything serves and its cost is zero. Because the repellents are really expensive and not everyone has the money to buy them.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSan Luis, Argentina - 13th May, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide shot, tilt from swampy pond up to Daniel Sosa and Miguel Angel (local farmer) walking along together beside pond\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide of local farmer Miguel Angel walking with box beside pond\u003cbr/\u003e17. Close of frog resting in water at edge of pond\u003cbr/\u003e18. Medium of Miguel Angel putting frogs from shoe box out at the edge of pond\u003cbr/\u003e19. Close of Miguel Angel\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close of frog in grass\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Miguel Angel, Local Farmer, San Luis, Argentina\u003cbr/\u003e\"A frog is a form of defence, that's the first thing and secondly in my opinion if I may say...  all this chemical stuff and all that is a waste of space, because you know why, because when the insect gets the scent it goes away from where is the defence and the mosquito is no more there. Only when he is a top or he is really caught with the spray, but other than that it doesn't provide anything...he is gone and keeps going...you get me. Another thing I believe, is all this chemical combination does nothing good for the health of the people as it contaminates the air.\"\u003cbr/\u003eCordoba, Argentina - 8th December, 2008\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide of tractor spraying field of crops with pesticides\u003cbr/\u003e23. Medium of tractor spraying field of crops with pesticides\u003cbr/\u003e24. Very wide of field being ploughed by tractor\u003cbr/\u003e25. Medium of field being ploughed by tractor\u003cbr/\u003eCordoba, Argentina - 8th December, 2008\u003cbr/\u003e27. Wide of field sown with soya\u003cbr/\u003e28. Very wide of bulldozer driving through a farm\u003cbr/\u003e29. Wide of swampy river with river and vegetation in foreground and boat in background\u003cbr/\u003eBuenos Aires, Argentina - 8th May, 2009\u003cbr/\u003eChaco, Argentina - 20th August, 2008\u003cbr/\u003e30. Various shots of two men using a fishing net in the river\u003cbr/\u003eSan Luis, Argentina - 13th May, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e31. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ana Brigada, Head of Biology Department, University of San Luis, San Luis, Argentina\u003cbr/\u003e\"In accordance with the autonomous population here it must not be misunderstood that we do not try to introduce species that are not natural to our region, because we have to take care with a representative number in each region, and we have to study them previously because it just might be that they occupy the nests of the native species and with that we would produce a real ecological crisis.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSan Luis, Argentina - 13th May, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e32. Close of large frog in marshy grass\u003cbr/\u003e33. Medium of frog hopping from edge of pond into pond\u003cbr/\u003e34. Close of frog going under roots of tree and out of shot\u003cbr/\u003eAdopt a frog and put pais to dengue fever, that's the unconventional idea touted by a councillor in the central Argentine province of San Luis.\u003cbr/\u003eThe frog's appetite for the disease carrying mosquito is being promoted as a clean-cut biological control, and an alternative to the chemical methods currently being used to combat the country's epidemic.\u003cbr/\u003eFrogs - possibly the answer to dengue fever. \u003cbr/\u003eIn Argentina, a country more commonly recognised for the sacred cow, due its resident's love of meat, the small interior city of San Luis is adopting the frog as its provincial hero. \u003cbr/\u003eWhile the streets of Argentina are in the grips of a dengue fever outbreak, frogs are being touted as the antidote. \u003cbr/\u003eLocal Councillor Daniel Sosa has taken up the campaign, explaining that the green rangers eat over 15 thousand insects per month, including mosquitoes - the main carriers of the disease.\u003cbr/\u003eHe says he wants people to adopt a frog and forget the widely used chemical controls that disrupt the ecological equilibrium.\u003cbr/\u003eSosa is not selling the frogs but he is giving them away, encouraging locals to put them in their gardens in a collective effort to boost population numbers.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile not everyone has been jumping at the prospect of taking one home, local residents have been receiving them with amused curiosity.\u003cbr/\u003eSome say the proposal is a simple step in combating the disease, while others more reluctantly welcome the hopping mosquito monitors.\u003cbr/\u003eAccording to a local newspaper a farmer in a nearby village had the original idea.\u003cbr/\u003eHe was convinced the repopulation of the amphibians in the heavily forested area would provide a clean answer to the long legged mosquito.\u003cbr/\u003eDespite the region having large numbers of frogs in the past, today there are very few as a consequence of changes in their natural habitat and years of fumigation.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile artificial controls like pesticides can be a quick fix, frogs and toads feed on the larvae of mosquitoes, getting to the root of the problem.\u003cbr/\u003eResidents like Miguel Angel became involved in the movement by encouraging the notion of people breeding frogs in their backyards.\u003cbr/\u003eHe says that in contrast to the toxic methods widely being used to combat the mosquito, a frog is a friend to the health of people.\u003cbr/\u003eMassive spraying in recent years against the bloodsuckers is one of the reasons for the low numbers of amphibians in the region.\u003cbr/\u003eNewer strains of the disease carrying mosquito, the Aedes aegypti, have become resistant to the chemical controls - but the amphibian population continues to decline.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile pesticides destroy everything, including flora and fauna they are also often linked with harmful affects to humans. \u003cbr/\u003eFrogs are widely recognised sentinels of the environment and their absence can be seen as a signal that something is wrong.\u003cbr/\u003eGonzalo Basile is the Argentine President of Medicos del Mundo, the global health humanitarian organisation. He explains that the destruction of the environment has played a big part in the growth of dengue. \u003cbr/\u003eHe adds that we need to think about a full mosquito management strategy that takes biological controls into account.\u003cbr/\u003eArgentina�s expansion as a global bread basket has also played its part in creating a fertile environment for the growth of dengue.\u003cbr/\u003eIndiscriminate land clearing activities for the fervent growing of soya have disrupted large parts of the country's ecological balance. \u003cbr/\u003eThe northern province of Chaco, one of Argentina's poorest regions, is the area worst hit by dengue in the country. \u003cbr/\u003eWith over a third of the population below the bread line the most needy are the most affected.\u003cbr/\u003eBad sanitation and drainage have helped to create the problem, and lack of sufficient health care is compounding the deathly effects of dengue.\u003cbr/\u003eThere's still not a vaccine to treat the disease known as 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