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How Kenya can manage its increasing dengue fever cases

May 10, 20170
Dengue fever is influenced by rainfall, temperature and unplanned rapid urbanisation. Credit: Shutterstock

 

A public health alert for 150 dengue fever cases has been issued in Mombasa, Kenya. The Conversation Africa’s Health and Medicine Editor Joy Wanja Muraya spoke to Dr Andrew Githeko on the effective management of this disease whose spread is encouraged by water storage trends.

What causes dengue fever and what type of human behaviour favours its breeding?

Dengue fever, which is a mosquito-borne viral infection, is transmitted by two species of mosquito:

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