While the whole world has its eyes riveted on the evolution of Covid-19, another epidemic is particularly virulent: that of dengue, which severely affects the entire intertropical zone (Asia-Pacific, Latin America, West Indies, etc.). ). With 390 million people infected each year on average, thirty times more than fifty years ago, and 20,000 deaths, the disease transmitted by a mosquito bite was cited last year by the World Health Organization (WHO) among the ten worst threats to public health.
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2019 was marked by a record number of cases in many countries and 2020 promises to be worrying, experts warn. Latin America, which had the worst record in its history at the end of 2019 with 3 million cases, begins 2020 by keeping its lights red. The continent's giant, Brazil, which counted 2.2 million cases last year, already records 167,000 people infected in just two months. In Costa Rica, the number of cases
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