About half of the world’s population lives in areas with a risk of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne tropical disease. Scientists have warned that climate change is likely hastening the spread of the mosquito species that carries the virus to areas that, until recently, were free of the disease. The World’s Tibisay Zea reports.
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