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The Strike Of Dengue Fears Malaysians !

Nur Soleha Bt Abdul Karim
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DENGUE !

Dengue (or dengue) is one of the most common mosquito-borne diseases in Malaysia. It is so common that the Health Ministry maintains a current dengue report on its homepage, updated weekly.
Dengue causes a high fever and a rash. Most people fears because dengue will be ill for about 10 days but with the right treatment, will then recover. Only female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes spread dengue fever, which killed 134 people in Malaysia last year. Malaysia has released 6,000 genetically modified Aedes aegypti male mosquitoes into a forest in a bid to curb rates of dengue fever.
           However, the plan has sparked criticism by some Malaysian environmentalists, who fear it might have unforeseen consequences, such as the inadvertent creation of uncontrollable mutated mosquitoes.
Critics also say such plans could leave a vacuum in the ecosystem that is then filled by another insect species, potentially introducing new diseases.

A similar trial in the Cayman Islands last year - the first time genetically modified mosquitoes have been set in the wild after years of laboratory experiments and hypothetical calculations - resulted in a dramatic drop in the mosquito population in a small area studied by researchers in MalaysiaThe Malaysian government-run Institute for Medical Research said it released about 6,000 non-biting sterile male lab mosquitoes in an uninhabited forest area in eastern Malaysia on December 21.


      The plan has sparked criticism by some environmentalists, who fear it might have unforeseen consequences,such as the inadvertent creation of uncontrollable mutated mosquitoes in the section of Malaysian forest.


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