The Gulf Coast: A New American Underbelly of Tropical Diseases and Poverty
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The recent finding that dengue fever has emerged in Houston, Texas—the first major United States city in modern times with autochthonous dengue—adds to previous evidence indicating that the Gulf Coast of the Southern US is under increasing threat from diseases thought previously to affect only developing countries.
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Hotez, Peter J., Murray, Kristy O. and Buekens, Pierre. "The Gulf Coast: A New American Underbelly of Tropical Diseases and Poverty." 8, no. 5 (2014) Public Library of Science: e2760. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002760.