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The Bug is Back.(outbreak of dengue fever, Brazil)(Statistical Data Included)
When Theodore Roosevelt journeyed through the Amazon rain forest a century ago, he marveled at the fearsome wildlife. But it wasn't the jaguar or the anaconda that impressed him. It was the bugs. The "multitude of insects that bite, sting, devour, and prey upon other creatures, often with accompaniments of atrocious suffering, passes belief," he wrote in 1914. What would Roosevelt have written today? For the past several months, Brazil has suffered one of South America's worst outbreaks of mosquito-borne dengue fever on record. Some 500,000 people were infected nationwide, half of them in Rio de Janeiro. The official death toll was 82 as of last week, and even though cold ...
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