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Saturday, 06 October 2007 |
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A six-year-old girl, living in the storm-battered Lake Chapala community of San Juan Cosala, has been taken to a Guadalajara hospital to be treated for dengue fever. At the same time, authorities were vaccinating San Juan residents for tetanus, measles and dengue. Yet, according to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta (CDC), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the World Health Organization, there exists no effective, affordable vaccine for dengue. This is because there are four virus strains, each so different that there is no cross-protection. |
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