PETALING JAYA: Very warm or wet weather leads to a spike in the number of mosquitoes, including Aedes which causes dengue fever.
Universiti Malaya climate expert Prof Datuk Azizan Abu Samah said a surge in dengue cases can be triggered by these two weather conditions.
The first is an increase in temperature and the second is an increase in rainfall.
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