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Hemispheric Plan to Expand and Intensify Efforts to Combat Aedes aegypti

Report on the Hemispheric Plan to eradicate Ae. Aegypti. in the Region. The task force analyzed the factors leading to success that were present in the initial eradication campaigns, as well as those that had led to the failure of these efforts, resulting in the reinfestation of countries that had achieved eradication. Keywords: dengue, dengue haemorrhagic fever, yellow fever.