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"Costa Rica's health minister recently said that there have been more than 160,000 confirmed cases of dengue fever in Latin America so far this year.<br /><br />The number of people infected in the region is certainly higher. In 2010, estimates of the number of people in Latin America infected by the mosquito-borne illness reached 1.5 million people. There have been more than 400 deaths from the illness reported this year, according to <a href=\"http://TheCostaRicaNews.com\">TheCostaRicaNews.com</a>.<br /><br />Outbreaks of the illness have been reported throughout Latin America. A dengue outbreak has caused 32 deaths and infected more than 20,000 people in Peru alone. The Peruvian government recently declared a state of emergency for two months in order to facilitate the fumigation of nearly 70,000 homes.<br /><br />The dengue fever virus is transmitted by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, which lives in tropical and sub-tropical climates. More than a third of the world's population is at risk for transmission. Symptoms of the disease usually resemble influenza with joint and bone pain. A rash may appear over most of the body after the fever starts, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health.<br /><br />In rare cases, the virus can cause highly fatal dengue hemorrhagic fever, a more severe form of the illness. It can be fatal if unrecognized and not properly treated in a timely manner."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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