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Dengue epidemic in Cambodia

Cambodia is facing an epidemic of dengue, says Zosia Kmietowicz, writing in the British Medical Journal.

There have been 16 986 unconfirmed cases of dengue haemorrhagic fever and 174 deaths throughout the country since the start of the outbreak. In June alone there were 132 deaths from dengue fever, a fivefold increase compared with the previous month.

For the free full text of this article, see here http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7610/65

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