BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) - The outbreak of dengue fever and its sometimes deadly haemorrhagic strain will continue to increase across the Americas in the 21st century unless governments boost their will to combat the tropical virus, experts said.

Cases of dengue are on the rise in almost every country in North and South America even though the disease was almost wiped out by a 1962 plan to eradicate the mosquito that carries and spreads the virus.

But a lack of coordination between and within governments, dwindling resources and declining awareness of the problem has led to a resurgence of dengue in every Western Hemisphere country except for Canada, Chile, Bermuda and Cuba -- which have largely eradicated it.

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