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Coverage dated February 15, 2024

To fight dengue epidemic, health agents in Brazil scour junkyards and roofs for mosquitos

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Local public health officials in Rio de Janeiro have been scouring the city's neighborhoods and even its junkyards for signs of standing water where mosquitoes can lay their eggs. It's part of nationwide efforts to curtail a surge in Brazil of the mosquito-borne illness of dengue fever during the co…

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  1. Fox News

    Brazil health workers combat dengue epidemic by scouring Rio de Janeiro for mosquito eggs (opens Fox News)

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    A team of state public health workers in Rio de Janeiro is working to combat a surge in dengue fever cases during Brazil's tourist season. The nation has seen 512,000 cases.

  2. Green Field Reporter

    To fight dengue epidemic, health agents in Brazil scour junkyards and roofs for mosquitos - The Daily Reporter (opens Green Field Reporter)

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    RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The small team of state public health workers slalomed between auto parts strewn across a Rio de Janeiro junkyard, looking for standing water where mosquitoes might have laid their eggs.

  3. KOB 4

    To fight dengue epidemic, health agents in Brazil scour junkyards and roofs for mosquitos (opens KOB 4)

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    Local public health officials in Rio de Janeiro have been scouring the city's neighborhoods and even its junkyards for signs of standing water where mosquitoes can lay their eggs. It's part of nationwide efforts to curtail a surge in Brazil of the mosquito-borne illness of dengue fever during the co…

  4. KOB 4

    Brazil's health agents scour junkyards and roofs for mosquitos to fight dengue epidemic (opens KOB 4)

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    KOB 4's feed description

    Local public health officials in Rio de Janeiro have been scouring the city's neighborhoods and even its junkyards for signs of standing water where mosquitoes can lay their eggs. It's part of nationwide efforts to curtail a surge in Brazil of the mosquito-borne illness of dengue fever during the co…

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