Friday, February 17, 2017

Contact tracing and targeted insecticide spraying can curb dengue outbreaks

02/17/2017 02:00 PM EST

Targeted indoor residual spraying helps contain outbreaks of diseases such as dengue virus.

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Contact tracing -- a process of identifying everyone who has come into contact with those infected by a particular disease -- combined with targeted, indoor spraying of insecticide can greatly reduce the ...

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