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INSIDECOSTARICA
| Friday 03 September 2010 |
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Dengue
Increases
in Costa
Rica
Nearly
21,000
people
in Costa
Rica
have
suffered
dengue
fever so
far this
year,
the
ministerio
de Salud
(ministry
of
Health)
informed
on
Thursday.
The
ministry
said in
a report
that
this
represents
a 621.6
percent
increase
over the
same
period
last
year,
when
only
3,326
cases
were
reported.
The
number
of
dengue
patients
grew
despite
government's
preventive
campaigns
urging
the
population
to
eliminate
the
sources
of
infection
of the
Aedes
Aegypti
mosquito,
the
agent
that
transmits
the
disease,
the text
added.
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