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NIAID experts see dengue as potential threat to US public health

A disease most Americans have never heard of could soon become more prevalent if dengue, a flu-like illness that can turn deadly, continues to expand into temperate climates and increase in severity, according to a new commentary by Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of NIAID, and David M. Morens, M.D., Fauci’s senior scientific advisor. Their commentary appears in the Jan. 9 and 16 double issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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