By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews
The World Health Organization said this week, “The rise in outbreaks this year is a wake-up call for governments, policymakers and researchers to strengthen surveillance and control programmes and to step up prevention strategies to control this phenomenal spread of dengue and other vector-borne viruses”, acknowledging the enormous issue it is 2019.
I look at 3 areas seeing big increases in dengue in 2019–the Americas–Brazil, Mexico, etc; Bangladesh and the Philippines.
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