Dengue risk in three Brazil Cup cities

Three Brazilian host cities -- Fortaleza, Natal and Recife -- are at higher risk than the other nine of a dengue fever outbreak during the World Cup, scientists said on Saturday

Paris: Three Brazilian host cities -- Fortaleza, Natal and Recife -- are at higher risk than the other nine of a dengue fever outbreak during the World Cup, scientists said on Saturday.

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In absolute terms, the risk is low in all Cup venues, but comparatively greater in the three northeastern cities and authorities should beef up steps to prevent an outbreak, they said.

A potentially dangerous fever caused by a virus for which there is no vaccine or cure, dengue is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito when it takes a blood meal.

Doctors last year sounded the alarm over dengue at the June 12-July 13 tournament. The disease is endemic in Brazil, which is expected to lure hundreds of thousands of football visitors.

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