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When Worlds Collide #103: Combating Dengue, a ‘Silent Disaster’
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today broadsheet newspaper on 18 April 2014 The theme for World Health Day, observed on April 7, was vector-borne diseases – a major public health challenge in the tropics. It was … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Climate change, Communicating Development, Disaster, Disaster Communication, Education, Environment, Environmental management, Poverty, Public health, Public perceptions, Sri Lanka, Sustainable Development, Urban issues
Tagged Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, ‘silent disasters’, chikungunya, climate change, Climate connection to dengue fever, dengue, dengue fever (DF), dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), Dengue in Sri Lanka, Dengue is preventable, dengue mosquitoes, dengue virus, Dengue: Turning up the volume on a silent disaster, Dr F Noordeen, Dr P D N N Sirisena, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Japanese encephalitis, lymphatic filariasis, malaria, mosquitoes, Small Bite Big Threat, vector-borne diseases, Walter Cotte, WHO, World Health Day, World Health Organisation (WHO), yellow fever.
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