This is really not good news. The mosquito that carries it also carries yellow fever. Global warming result? Sort of. This mosquito loves to breed in greater numbers when it has access to recently deforested areas - its perfect breeding gound. That's why Yellow Fever was such a big killer when Panama Canal was being built - they cut down many forests to build the canal. Message? Don't even think about buying wood products made from forests in Central America, Mexico, and the Amazon. Oh, a variant of Dengue probably killed millions of Mayans in a fashion similar to Ebola a hundred years before the Spanish arrived and was the result of cutting down forests to plant corn for massive Mayan city states.
AMERICA/MEXICO - Dengue cases in Mexico nearly doubled in 2009
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - According to health authorities in Mexico, the country closed the year with an increase of 50% more cases of dengue fever than those recorded in 2008. Among the causes of the increase include the mutation of the insect vector, the Aedes aegypti, which now reproduces itself almost year round, even in winter.
According to the Health Ministry, the mosquito has developed resistance to insecticides and has managed to adapt to areas of higher altitude, thus extending the areas of infection.
The latest report from the National Center for epidemiological surveillance indicates that cases of classical dengue fever reported in 2009 were 40,865, up from 27,479 in 2008. (AP) (Agenzia Fides 4/1/2010)
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