Predicting outbreaks of dengue fever according to climate

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 - 10:10 in Health & Medicine

Dengue fever, transmitted by the Aedes mosquito, affects hundreds of millions of people in around one hundred tropical countries and causes 25,000 deaths per year. In the absence of a vaccine, determining the factors that influence epidemics to predict them better is a real public health challenge.

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