CDC: 1,000 Key West Residents Exposed to Dengue Fever

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7/16/2010 - By Associated Press
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"Dengue fever is a flulike illness spread by the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti mosquito (ay-EE-deez ee-JIP-ty), a common urban mosquito in the U.S. and Caribbean. It is also known as breakbone fever because of the intense joint pain suffered in extreme cases.

"We're concerned that if dengue gains a foothold in Key West, it will travel to other southern cities where the mosquito that transmits dengue is present, like Miami," Dr. Harold Margolis, chief of the CDC's dengue branch, said in a statement."

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