Dengue Fever Outbreak In Pakistan

RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN - SEPTEMBER 18: A Pakistani nurse tends dengue fever patients at an isolated ward of a hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on September 18, 2014. The virus, borne by mosquitos which breed in stagnant water have infected 493 people in Punjab province. Authorities in Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley had declared a health emergency after nearly 5,000 cases of dengue fever were reported in September 2013 in which 17 were killed. An outbreak in Lahore,the capital of Punjab province, in September 2011 killed 362 people and infected more than 21,000. (Photo by Muhammad Reza/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)