Luis Romero / AP A San Salvador government worker fumigates
houses in the northern area of the capital city, to eliminate
mosquitos, transmitters of the dengue disease in San Salvador,
El Salvador, Aug. 17, 2012. From the Pan American Health
Organization website: In Key West, there's talk of releasing
genetically-modified mosquitoes to fight dengue fever, a
mosquito-borne illness. WFLA's Brooks Garner reports. In recent
months dengue has gotten worse in El Salvador, a trend that has
turned combating the disease into a national priority. According
to a World Health Organization Representative in El Salvador, by
June 15, the number of clinical cases of Dengue reached
1301.Children between the ages of 5 and 9 years are most
affected. In light of this situation, the President of El
Salvador has declared a state of emergency in the departments of
San Salvador, Libertad, Santa Ana, and Cabañas, and a yellow
alert in the rest of the country. Activities aimed at control
include day and night sprayings, which are bein