- by Alison
COVID-19 brought the 2020 New Year in with a bang. Almost immediately, scientists started experiments, shared data and revealed the secrets of the pathogen. Will we apply what we learn from working together to contain this novel virus to halt dengue? Just eight weeks into…
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- by Alison
Insecticide resistance is growing; ‘biological control’ of mosquitoes is becoming more commonplace in response. Communities are increasingly employing small creatures to help in their fight against dengue. Previously, we’ve looked at how people in Cambodia have used guppy fish, and also tried using crustaceans, to…
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- by Alison
Professor Duane Gubler is one of the world’s leading experts on dengue vaccines. He has supported the development of all three of today’s leading vaccines: Sanofi’s Dengvaxia, the Takeda dengue vaccine and the NIH (US National Institutes of Health) dengue vaccine, both currently in clinical…
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- by Alison
Studies into the burden of dengue have primarily focused on the costs borne by patients and healthcare systems in endemic countries. But with today’s world more connected than ever, the burden of dengue is now being felt right across the globe. We spoke with Professor…
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- by Alison
Dengue is becoming a real threat for Europe. Scientists believe dengue vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus could soon spread as far north as Stockholm and Berlin respectively if we don’t curb greenhouse gas levels. In 2018, we saw the threat of dengue in Europe…
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- by Alison
In the first of our two-part series looking at Oxitec’s 2nd generation Friendly™ Mosquito technology, Grey Frandsen, Oxitec’s CEO, explained their self-limiting mosquitoes potential to fight dengue. In this second part, Frandsen shares news on developments in Brazil, explains why public engagement is so important…
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- by Alison
The Philippines Department of Health (DOH) declared a National Dengue Epidemic on 6th August 2019. Dengue cases in the country had almost doubling compared with the first seven months of 2018 – a year that was itself considered an extreme year for dengue. With the…
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- by Alison
What’s behind Brazil’s 2019 dengue? Brazil is facing one of its worst dengue outbreaks in recent years. During the first six months of 2019, case numbers have risen to seven times those seen during the same period in 2018. Fatalities, meanwhile, are six times higher.…
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- by Alison
In the 18 months since we last met with Oxitec, the ‘Friendly™ Mosquito’ biotech company has a new CEO and has been busy advancing new technologies, new partnerships and new initiatives. By releasing self-limiting mosquitoes, they are able to control populations of the Aedes aegypti,…
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- by Alison
Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are spreading across the globe, increasing the number of people at risk from mosquito-borne diseases, including dengue. Their expansion is largely due to human movement and climate change. Scientists are using statistical modelling techniques to show how Aedes is spreading.…
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