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In this photograph taken on March 14, 2012, a Cuban doctor (L) guides East Timorese medical interns while a Filipino doctor (R) attends to five year old Josualdo Maria afflicted with dengue at Dili's National Hospital where a recent outbreak of dengue claimed 11 lives. Among the dengue victims were seven children and cases of malnutrition are prevalent in the country with a population of 1.1 million, according to hospital officials. A decade after independence East Timor is restive for change, voting Saturday in the second presidential polls as a free country and hoping that an energy-fuelled bonanza will lift this tiny Southeast Asian nation out of poverty and chronic instability. AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACAD (Photo credit should read ROMEO GACAD/AFP via Getty Images)

In this photograph taken on March 14, 2012, a Cuban doctor (L) guides East Timorese medical interns while a Filipino doctor (R) attends to five year old Josualdo Maria afflicted with dengue at Dili's National Hospital where a recent outbreak of dengue claimed 11 lives. Among the dengue victims were seven children and cases of malnutrition are prevalent in the country with a population of 1.1 million, according to hospital officials. A decade after independence East Timor is restive for change, voting Saturday in the second presidential polls as a free country and hoping that an energy-fuelled bonanza will lift this tiny Southeast Asian nation out of poverty and chronic instability. AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACAD (Photo credit should read ROMEO GACAD/AFP via Getty Images)
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A lab technitian works on blood samples at the Cesar Garayar support hospital in the city of Iquitos, in the Amazon basin, on May 22, 2020, dedicated to endemic diseases like dengue, malaria, chikunguya and leptospirosis that still affect the population in addition to the arrival of the novel coronavirus that has claimed the lives of 14 doctors at this facility, not dedicated to harbor Covid19 cases. - Focused attention on fighting the new coronavirus in Peru has detracted the ability to combat the dengue fever, an explosive situation in the Amazon region, where it is leaving a trail of disease and death in cities and remote indigenous villages. (Photo by Cesar Von BANCELS / AFP) (Photo by CESAR VON BANCELS/AFP via Getty Images)

A lab technitian works on blood samples at the Cesar Garayar support hospital in the city of Iquitos, in the Amazon basin, on May 22, 2020, dedicated to endemic diseases like dengue, malaria, chikunguya and leptospirosis that still affect the population in addition to the arrival of the novel coronavirus that has claimed the lives of 14 doctors at this facility, not dedicated to harbor Covid19 cases. - Focused attention on fighting the new coronavirus in Peru has detracted the ability to combat the dengue fever, an explosive situation in the Amazon region, where it is leaving a trail of disease and death in cities and remote indigenous villages. (Photo by Cesar Von BANCELS / AFP) (Photo by CESAR VON BANCELS/AFP via Getty Images)
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This photograph taken on August 4, 2019, a Bangladeshi man suffering from dengue fever rests at the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital in Dhaka. - Bangladesh is in the midst of its worst-ever outbreak of the viral fever, with scores killed and at least 2,000 new hospital patients admitted every day over the past week. (Photo by Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP) / To go with story 'BANGLADESH-VIRUS-DENGUE,SCENE' (Photo credit should read MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

This photograph taken on August 4, 2019, a Bangladeshi man suffering from dengue fever rests at the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital in Dhaka. - Bangladesh is in the midst of its worst-ever outbreak of the viral fever, with scores killed and at least 2,000 new hospital patients admitted every day over the past week. (Photo by Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP) / To go with story 'BANGLADESH-VIRUS-DENGUE,SCENE' (Photo credit should read MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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