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Contact tracing and targeted insecticide spraying can curb dengue outbreaks
Description: Contact tracing -- a process of identifying everyone who has come into contact with those infected by a particular disease -- combined with targeted, indoor spraying of insecticide can greatly reduce the spread of the mosquito-borne dengue virus, finds a new study. [Source: National Science Foundation]
URL: https://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=190909&org=NSF&from=news
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Source: National Science Foundation
Publish Date: 2/17/2017
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