Puerto Rico Declares Public Health Emergency Amid Historic Dengue Fever Outbreak

Puerto Rico declared a public health emergency this week as cases of dengue fever, a potentially deadly mosquito-borne infection, rise precipitously across the United States territory. In the emergency order, the commonwealth’s department of health said it had recorded 549 cases of the disease this year so far, a 140 percent increase over the same period a year ago. The numbers have “surpassed...

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