Via IRIN News :
" ADEN, 14 July 2010 : Outbreaks of mosquito-borne dengue fever in the southern and eastern governorates of Hadhramaut, Taiz, Aden and Abyan have left dozens dead in the past few months, and are claiming an increasing number of lives, according to officials.
On 13 July, local news website al-Sahwa.net, affiliated with the opposition Islah Party, quoted Rabea al-Abd Ba-Musa, head of the Ministry of Public Health & Population’s office in Hadhramaut Governorate, as saying that dengue was spreading rapidly in various districts of the provincial capital, Mukalla.
Twelve people had died since April and 1,442 people had been infected in Mukalla city, Ba-Musa said. He complained of lack of funds to combat the disease. Abdulbari Dughaish, a member of parliament (MP) from Aden Governorate, said dozens of slum residents in the governorate had died from dengue over the past few months and more than 150 had been infected."
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