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CDC issues dengue alert in the U.S. as risk of contracting the disease increases

An Aedes aegypti mosquito (Credit: AFP)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued on Tuesday a health advisory regarding the increased risk of dengue fever cases in the United States, as cases are well on track to surpass last year's.

Concretely, 2,241 have been reported so far this year, most of them in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, whose authorities declared a health emergency in March after seeing a historical amount of cases. Last year, the entire country saw a little over 3,000 reported cases.

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