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Dengue Plagues Rio.(Periscope; Disease Watch)(Rio de Janeiro)(Brief article)
Byline: Mac Margolis
Tropical maladies are nothing new for Brazil. Still, until the late 1990s, dengue fever--the scourge of Asia--was practically unknown in the country, where battalions of mosquito killers had all but wiped out the virus's Aedes aegypti host in their efforts to combat yellow fever. But as Brazil's economic boom drew millions of immigrants from dengue-infested countries to Rio's poorly drained, mud-filled shantytowns, the disease flourished.
Now it's nearing epic proportions: Brazil is home to seven out of every 10 new dengue cases in Latin America, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. In 2002, nearly ...
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