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It seems like common sense: Reduce insect populations, and insect-borne diseases will decline as well. But a new study of dengue, a viral disease transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, suggests the opposite. Controlling mosquitoes may result in more cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), a rare and sometimes fatal disease caused by the virus.

Researchers think that tens of millions of people in the tropics become infected with the dengue virus each year. The pathogen can spur dengue fever, which is marked by agonizing muscle and joint pains but is rarely fatal

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