- by Alison
Dengue is now endemic in more than 100 countries across Africa, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean, South-East Asia, and the Western Pacific. Countries in the Americas, South-East Asia, and Western Pacific are most seriously affected, as the Dengue Health Map shows. Cases across these regions…
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- by Alison
Before 1970, only nine countries had experienced severe dengue epidemics. The disease is now endemic in more than 100 countries, as The World Health Organization (WHO) confirms. It can be found in the Americas, South-East Asia and Western Pacific, Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean, with…
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- by Alison
We recently looked at how environmental factors such as climate change can affect how the dengue virus thrives in the Aedes aegypti mosquito and the mosquito’s ability to transmit the disease. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland in the…
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- by Gary Finnegan
We speak to Mauricio Santillana, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard University, about his new paper on the use of Google searches in disease surveillance. Not only are search engines a vital tool for fighting dengue, they connect the community in a novel way, opening the…
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- by Gary Finnegan
The number of dengue fever publications has grown strongly since 1960. According to an analysis of PubMed, performed by Break Dengue, just five search results were returned for ‘dengue fever’ in the year 1960. This rose gently until the late 1990s when the graph turned…
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- by Gary Finnegan
A new study by researchers at Harvard and Break Dengue shows the power of real-time disease monitoring. It could even enable swifter responses to disease outbreaks A new research paper published in PLOS Computational Biology, a peer-reviewed scientific journal, reveals how search engines can be…
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- by Ronnie Moore
What is World Mosquito Day? In the year of 1897, a British doctor named, Ronald Ross found that it was the female mosquitoes (of the Anopheles genus) that were responsible for transmitting the malarial parasite. In a nutshell, his discovery ultimately led to smarter ways…
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- by KRIZETTE CHU
Manila, Philippines — Leading infectious disease experts from Asia, together with some of the region’s principal policymakers, public health authorities, and government officials, gathered at the 2nd Asia Dengue Summit on March 1 and 2 to discuss the rapidly increasing burden of dengue, which has…
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- by Gary Finnegan
Researchers in Sweden have identified a strong link between El Niño conditions in the Pacific and dengue fever epidemics in South Asia. The finding could help to improve epidemic warning lead times – giving health authorities time to prepare for major dengue outbreaks. El Niño…
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- by Gary Finnegan
World Mosquito Day 2016! If you keep up with the news, you might be tempted to believe that the bugs are winning. The Zika virus regularly steals recent headlines. Meanwhile, dengue fever affects over 390 million people every year; malaria kills 600 million+ annually, and…
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