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Science 11 July 1997:
Vol. 277. no. 5323, p. 174
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5323.174
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
Resurgent Mosquitoes, Dengue in Cuba

Gary Taubes

An epidemic of dengue fever, a viral disease spread by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, has reappeared in Santiago, Cuba's second-largest city, and spread to the middle and west of the island. The epidemic has affected as many as 30,000 people; it marks the failure of an Aedes eradication campaign, which the Cuban government had pursued with what public health experts describe as paramilitary zeal.

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