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Add one more horror to the list of awful threats that climate change poses: it could introduce dengue fever in Europe.

Dengue fever is already a hazard for 2.5 billion people in humid tropical regions, and 50-100 million people a year are infected by the mosquito-borne disease. It puts 500,000 of them in hospital each year, and kills around 12,000 − many of them children. And there is still