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Brazil reports explosion of dengue, a bad omen for spread of Zika virus
By Dom Phillips February 12 at 6:24 PM
RIO DE JANEIRO ? Brazil on Friday reported a nearly 50 percent jump in cases of dengue fever reported over a three-week period in January, a worrying finding because the disease is carried by the same mosquito that spreads the Zika virus.
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?We will probably have a dengue epidemic,? Lago said. ?And this dengue epidemic will be accompanied by a Zika epidemic.?
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Brazil?s Health Ministry reported 74,000 ?probable? cases of dengue from Jan. 3 to Jan. 23 ? an increase of almost 50 percent from the same period in January 2015.
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The number of probable cases of dengue rose from about 600,000 in 2014 to 1.6 million in 2015, according to official statistics. The government estimates that as many as 1.5 million people may have caught Zika. In 2015, Brazil recorded nearly 21,000 cases of chikungunya, which, like dengue, is marked by fever and joint pains.
?If there is a spike of all three of them, it could mean the mosquito is becoming more efficient,? said Anandasankar Ray, associate professor of entomology and the director of the Center for Disease Vector Research at the University of California at Riverside.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...2f09bc-cf3c-11e5-90d3-34c2c42653ac_story.html
By Dom Phillips February 12 at 6:24 PM
RIO DE JANEIRO ? Brazil on Friday reported a nearly 50 percent jump in cases of dengue fever reported over a three-week period in January, a worrying finding because the disease is carried by the same mosquito that spreads the Zika virus.
...
?We will probably have a dengue epidemic,? Lago said. ?And this dengue epidemic will be accompanied by a Zika epidemic.?
...
Brazil?s Health Ministry reported 74,000 ?probable? cases of dengue from Jan. 3 to Jan. 23 ? an increase of almost 50 percent from the same period in January 2015.
...
The number of probable cases of dengue rose from about 600,000 in 2014 to 1.6 million in 2015, according to official statistics. The government estimates that as many as 1.5 million people may have caught Zika. In 2015, Brazil recorded nearly 21,000 cases of chikungunya, which, like dengue, is marked by fever and joint pains.
?If there is a spike of all three of them, it could mean the mosquito is becoming more efficient,? said Anandasankar Ray, associate professor of entomology and the director of the Center for Disease Vector Research at the University of California at Riverside.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...2f09bc-cf3c-11e5-90d3-34c2c42653ac_story.html