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04-09-2007, 05:50 PM
The Minister for Public Health, Bautista Rojas Gomez, has announced a renewed effort to combat the current recent spike in cases of dengue fever. According to the minister, the entire population will be covered during the rest of 2007 and the goals are to reduce the number of cases and death attributed to the mosquito-borne plague.
In 2006, the Public Health Ministry certified 52 victims of dengue fever, and so far this year there have been ten deaths attribute to the illness. The new campaign will concentrate its efforts on public announcements and teams at work in schools across the land. Municipalities and the Armed Forces will assist in the campaign.

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