MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - Dengue fever has swept across northern Mexico near the Texas border, killing at least seven people and making thousands of others ill, local officials said Wednesday. About 5,500 people in Nuevo Leon state have been diagnosed with the painful, mosquito-borne disease this month alone. Of those, about 150 have come down with the serious, sometimes-deadly form known as hemorrhagic dengue. In neighboring Tamaulipas, which runs along the border from Nuevo Laredo to the Gulf of Mexico, 500 more cases have been reported, said Martha Marmolejo, head of Nuevo Laredo's medical services. Five people died in Nuevo Leon, and two died in Tamaulipas.

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