Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Dengue outbreak shows dark side of Rio de Janeiro

A man stands next to a garbage container at the Salgueiro slum in Rio de Janeiro. The shantytowns that cling to Rio's lush jungle hillsides are fertile breeding ground for the black larvae of the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

The mosquito-borne fever has killed nearly 90, hitting children and the poor the hardest, and prompted outrage at city officials.

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