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WHO boss: Zika result of 'massive' mosquito control failures
By Euan McKirdy, CNN
Updated 2:52 AM ET, Tue May 24, 2016
(CNN)World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan lashed out at family planning and mosquito control "failures" as root causes of the ongoing Zika crisis in an address to the World Health Assembly Monday.
Chan said that countries "dropped the ball" on mosquito control in the 1970s and called the ending of effective control practices a "massive policy failure."
She said that abandoning policies that kept mosquito numbers down set the stage for a resurgence of a disease that had "slumbered" for six decades in Africa and Asia, only to "wake up on a new continent to cause a global health emergency."
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http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/24/health/margaret-chan-world-health-assembly-zika/
By Euan McKirdy, CNN
Updated 2:52 AM ET, Tue May 24, 2016
(CNN)World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan lashed out at family planning and mosquito control "failures" as root causes of the ongoing Zika crisis in an address to the World Health Assembly Monday.
Chan said that countries "dropped the ball" on mosquito control in the 1970s and called the ending of effective control practices a "massive policy failure."
She said that abandoning policies that kept mosquito numbers down set the stage for a resurgence of a disease that had "slumbered" for six decades in Africa and Asia, only to "wake up on a new continent to cause a global health emergency."
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http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/24/health/margaret-chan-world-health-assembly-zika/
