Italian health authorities recorded the country’s first two local dengue cases of the year, they said on Thursday. Two people in the northern Italian provinces of Brescia and Reggio Emilia contracted the mosquito-borne disease, according to the Italian National Institute of Health. They both contracted the disease, which is widespread in tropical and subtropical areas, this summer, despite not having travelled abroad. Dengue is a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes in tropical and subtropical climates and can be life-threatening. It can be transmitted by the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes aeg…