Via Venezuelanalysis :
" Merida, July 2nd, 2010 : The health and education ministries launched a new national campaign yesterday to fight the dengue fever epidemic currently affecting Venezuela as well as many other tropical countries across the Americas and the world.
School students and communities are helping raise awareness about the disease.
Health authorities have registered 48,000 cases of dengue in the country, with a mortality rate of 0.7 percent of all cases. Venezuelan Health Minister Eugenia Sader said that in the last month the number of dengue cases had increased by 200 percent globally, but by 69 percent in Venezuela and 81 percent in the Americas."
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