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Nepal is reeling from an unprecedented dengue outbreak

Climate change may be making the Himalayan nation hospitable to disease-carrying mosquitoes

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As Nepal records at least 9,000 cases of dengue amid an unprecedented outbreak of the disease, workers are fumigating areas of Kathmandu against the mosquitoes that carry the disease.

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By Gloria Dickie

KATHMANDU, Nepal — When mosquito season brought past dengue outbreaks to regions across the Asian tropics, Nepal hardly had to worry.