Yemen’s health workers race to halt latest outbreak of deadly dengue fever
Health workers say the larvae develop into mosquitoes that transmit dengue fever and malaria [Saeed Al-Batati/Al Jazeera]“We carried out mosquito control campaigns in this area two months ago, combining public awareness, insecticide spraying and efforts to eliminate breeding sites,” bin Shabz says. “Now we’ve returned and found many of the same breeding sites still exist.” Advertisement After draining the chamber, the team presses deeper into the neighbourhood. Minutes later, they stop outside another house where an uncovered water storage tank sits beside the entrance.
- ▪Health workers say the larvae develop into mosquitoes that transmit dengue fever and malaria [Saeed Al-Batati/Al Jazeera]“We carried out mosquito control campaigns in this area two months ago, combining public awareness, insecticide sprayin
- ▪“Now we’ve returned and found many of the same breeding sites still exist.” Advertisement After draining the chamber, the team presses deeper into the neighbourhood.
- ▪Minutes later, they stop outside another house where an uncovered water storage tank sits beside the entrance.
Al Jazeera English files mainly under world. We currently carry 1,387 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Al Jazeera English |
| Canonical URL | https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/26/yemens-health-workers-race-to-halt-latest-outbreak-of-deadly-dengue-fever?traffic_source=rss |
| Publication time | Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:39:17 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-26T13:58:07.277Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-26T13:58:07.277Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | xFpHWz5slu8L |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
News|HealthYemen’s health workers race to halt latest outbreak of deadly dengue feverHealth workers are battling to contain the mosquito-borne disease amid growing concern over rising infections.ListenListen (8 mins)SaveClick here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharefacebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoSalem bin Shabz, an insect surveillance officer, and his colleague collect water samples from an uncovered storage tank in Mukalla after identifying mosquito larvae that transmit dengue fever and malaria [Saeed Al-Batati/Al Jazeera]By Saeed Al Batati and Saeed Al BatatiPublished On 26 Jul 202626 Jul 2026Mukalla, Yemen – Under the scorching sun and through heady humidity, Salem bin Shabz and his team of health workers move slowly through the narrow alleyways…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Al Jazeera English.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from Al Jazeera English
