Thursday, May 17, 2012

Americas - Voice of America: Experts Troubled by New Dengue Outbreaks in Western Hemisphere

Americas - Voice of America
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Experts Troubled by New Dengue Outbreaks in Western Hemisphere
May 17th 2012, 22:22

Dengue fever - a tropical disease once confined mainly to Africa and Asia - has become a growing problem in the Americas.  So far, there is no drug to treat the mosquito-borne viral disease or any vaccine to prevent the infection.  Public health experts say it has the potential to become a global health problem - more costly and difficult to control than malaria. "Dengue had been eliminated in this hemisphere for quite a while but unfortunately it got reintroduced and has been ...

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