The dengue virus-carrying Aedes mosquito is adapting to urbanized human environments and traditional methods used in most Asian countries to control their breeding, making it more diffcult to control.

Dr. Duane Gubler, director at the Asia-Pacific Institute of Tropical Diseases in Hawaii says, "It's a global pandemic. It's quite clear that the disease...has evolved. There just is more dengue in the world

The dengue virus-carrying Aedes mosquito has adapted to urbanized human environments and traditional methods used in most Asian countries to control their breeding, making it more diffcult to control its spread.

"It's a global pandemic," says Dr. Duane Gubler, director at the Asia-Pacific Institute of Tropical Diseases in Hawaii. "It's quite clear that the disease...has evolved. There just is more dengue in the world

The United Nation's children's agency reports about 1.4 million children under the age of five die unnecessarily each year from measles, whooping cough, and other diseases preventable by vaccines.

According to the report, about 130 million children are born each year, and since 1990, about 70-ercent have received the vital immunizations - up from some 20-percent under the age of 1 in 1980

According to a new U.N. Children's Fund, UNICEF, report 1.4 million children under five years of age die unnecessarily each year from measles, whooping cough or tetanus.

"Everybody thought that we were progressing so well that we would just continue to progress. But in fact that did not happen," Dr Peter Salama, UNICEF's chief of immunization, told a news conference

Angelina Jolie, Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton each stood-up and spoke-up at a dinner of the Global Business Coalition on HIV-AIDS, banning together to raise $1.3 million.

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