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Zika Epidemic Offers Sanitation a Chance in Brazil

2016-02-26 03:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: Three decades of dengue fever epidemic did not manage to awaken a sense of urgency in Brazil regarding the need for improving and expanding basic sanitation. But the recent surge in cases of microcephaly in newborns, associated with the Zika virus, apparently has. Both dengue and Zika are transmitted by the same vector, the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Back in the 1950s this kind of mosquito was supposedly eliminated in this country in a campaign against yellow fever. But it made a comeback two...

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