Brazil reports a significant rise in dengue to date, raises concern for Zika threat

It's hard to believe that after reporting 1,649,008 dengue fever cases and 863 deaths in 2015 that during the first weeks of 2016, the country is seeing a 50 percent increase in cases, which has also prompted concerns of the Zika virus threat. On Friday, the Brazil Health Ministry reported 74,000 "probable" cases of dengue from Jan. ["]