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When you donate by clicking on the above donate button, you will be giving a citronella candle to one family in the Dominican Rebublic where there is a dengue fever epidemic. Families are afraid to even leave their homes for fear of contracting dengue fever, but they are not even safe in their own homes.

All proceeds will benefit these as well as Haitian victims still recovering from the earthquake who have sought refuge in the Dominican Republic. Supplies will be distributed through a missionary organization led by Mama Luz (blue shirt in the video above).

According to Wikipedia, Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) are acute febrile diseases which occur in the tropics and can be life-threatening, It is also known as breakbone fever, since it can be extremely painful. It occurs widely in the tropics, including northern Argentina, northern Australia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bolivia, Belize, Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic,French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Laos, Malaysia, Melanesia, Mexico, Micronesia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Samoa, Western Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad, Venezuela and Vietnam, and increasingly in southern China. Unlike malaria, dengue is just as prevalent in the urban districts of its range as in rural areas.

Dengue is transmitted to humans by the Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti or more rarely the Aedes albopictus mosquito, both of which feed exclusively during daylight hours.

The WHO says some 2.5 billion people, two fifths of the world's population, are now at risk from dengue and estimates that there may be 50 million cases of dengue infection worldwide every year. The disease is now endemic in more than 100 countries.

In some areas there are 3 times more cases than there were last year and several people have died from dengue fever this year.