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Dengue Fever Spreads In Asia, WHO Warns 2.5B People At Risk
The World Health Organization (WHO) "has warned that 2.5 billion people are at risk" of dengue fever, "which has 'grown dramatically in recent decades," Agence France-Presse reports. WHO officials cite higher temperatures, growing populations and international travel for the "rapid rise in urban mosquito populations" and rise in dengue. Seventy percent of the at-risk population is in Asia, the WHO said.
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