{"id":11757,"date":"2019-12-03T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/dec\/03\/mosquitoes-bring-mystery-illness-to-the-mountain-villages-of-nepal-dengue-fever"},"modified":"2019-12-03T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T06:00:15","slug":"mosquitoes-bring-mystery-illness-to-the-mountain-villages-of-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11757","title":{"rendered":"Mosquitoes bring \u2018mystery illness\u2019 to the mountain villages of Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rising temperatures linked to outbreaks of dengue fever high in the Kathmandu Valley, experts say<\/p>\n

\u2022Global heating behind record number of cases of the disease<\/a><\/p>\n

Lilawati Awasthi is used to the risks that come from living in a remote mountainous district in the far west of Nepal. Floods, landslides and treacherous roads are a part of daily life. But this year she faced a new hazard: mosquitoes carrying a mystery illness.<\/p>\n

When she began to feel sick in September she was not overly concerned at first. \u201cI thought it was a simple fever, but it wouldn\u2019t go away,\u201d says the 50-year-old. \u201cWe went to the hospital and it turned out I was suffering from dengue.\u201d<\/p>\n

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