Tragic Mosquito-Borne Outbreak Leaves Nine-Year-Old Orphaned in Dhaka
Loss has cast a long and relentless shadow over nine-year-old Arifin Islam Arfa. Only three days after her birth, she lost her mother, Marufa Akhtar. On 18 September, vector-borne disease tore away what remained of her immediate family when her father, Tajul Islam, passed away from dengue fever. Left with neither parent, the primary school […]
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