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World Health Day 2014: Preventing vector-borne diseases
Description: More than half the world's population is at risk from diseases such as malaria, dengue, leishmaniasis, Lyme disease, schistosomiasis, and yellow fever, carried by mosquitoes, flies, ticks, water snails and other vectors. Every year, more than one billion people are infected and more than one million die from vector-borne diseases. [Source: World Health Organization]
URL: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/small-bite-big-threat/en/
Availability: Full Text
Source: World Health Organization
Publish Date: 5/1/2014
Reading Level: Basic
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