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Climate change to widen range of disease-carrying mosquitoes
Brazil
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[T]he recent outbreak of the Zika virus in South America has largely been driven by Aedes aegypti [mosquito]...
Infectious diseases, such as dengue and the Zika virus, could spread to new parts of the world as mosquitoes expand their habitats in a warmer, wetter world...
By 2061-80, an additional half a billion people could be at risk from diseases carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the study says – and could even rise to more than five billion under a scenario of high population growth
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