An additional RD$22 million were allocated to the Ministry of Public Health to be used to control dengue, which as of Tuesday this week had killed 26 people, according to official data published by Diario Libre. Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez informed that the virus causing the illness is more lethal than in previous years, which is why there have been more deaths compared to 2005, when 18 died of the mosquito-borne disease.

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