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Almost 10,000 people infected with dengue fever in Pakistan
A team of World Health Organization (WHO) is arriving on Sunday in Pakistan to help cope with dengue fever that has affected almost 10,000 people in the country, the Pakistani news agency INN reported, referring to official sources. In recent weeks, dengue fever has rapidly spread across Pakistan but the country’s north-eastern Punjab province has…
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Pakistan moves Twenty20 over dengue outbreak
Pakistan cricket authorities were Wednesday forced to shift the national Twenty20 tournament to Karachi after an outbreak of dengue fever in Lahore, the tournament’s original venue. President Asif Zardari, who is also the patron of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), said the tournament should also be used as a fund-raising event for the flood victims…