Dengue fever is not quite dead
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The disease, dengue fever, is on the march again and beginning to make its presence felt in the U.S., with cases popping up in Texas, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Last week, top health officials warned that a “widespread appearance” in the continental U.S. is “a real possibility.” Officials are forecasting outbreaks along parts of the Mexican border, although California is not seen as being at high risk.
What has raised the new threat for the United States from a disease scientists thought they had conquered in this hemisphere 30 years ago is a combination of globalization and, some think, global warming.”*
*From: www.latimes.com
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