Spike in dengue has Brazil on alert for epidemic

Friday, November 12, 2010 - 18:00 in Health & Medicine

By JULIANA BARBASSA 2010-11-12T21:34:00Z RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Health officials say Brazil is at risk of an even deadlier outbreak of dengue fever as the South American nation enters its long, wet summer, when standing water turns into breeding ponds for the mosquitoes that spread the disease....

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