Inter Press Service: Mosquitoes that transmit dengue fever need clean, still water and warm night temperatures to reproduce and thrive. That is common knowledge, but now scientists in Brazil have managed to measure the relation between increased rainfall and temperatures and the risk of dengue epidemics in this city.
A study at the National School of Public Health in Rio, titled "Temporal analysis of the relationship between dengue and meteorological variables in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2001-2009″......
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Brazil Measures Rain Against Dengue
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 10th, 2013
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