- 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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The Break Dengue Advisory Board met in Brussels in February to set our priorities for 2018. This diverse group of experts, drawn from academia and industry, joined our senior executive team to review progress on our various projects and chart the way forward. Among the…
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- by Alison
Recent challenges in dengue prevention programs in the Philippines have provided an opportunity to demonstrate the power of partnerships in public debate about health. The online space can be a particularly noising place to have meaningful conversations – especially in times of crisis. For Break…
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- by Alison
Innovative approaches to communicating scientific information were in the spotlight at this year’s ISNTD Fest in London. Hosted at the Wellcome Trust by the International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases (ISNTD), long-standing partners of Break Dengue, it was an opportunity to bring together an eclectic…
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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 KRIZETTE CHU
The Sandy Project draws from her intense pain from her own loss. Peaches Aranas reaches out to communities in the Philippines so that no mother will lose her child to dengue again. It was February 2013 when my only daughter Sandy caught dengue and unexpectedly…
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- by Alison
The dengue fever vaccine pipeline is advancing and as candidates approach clinical trials, we decided to take a closer look at the vaccines that could ease the burden of this disease. The world’s first dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia, was licensed by Sanofi Pasteur in 2015. It…
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- by Alison
Once the only state in Brazil to be free from dengue, investments aimed at developing rural Acre have, unfortunately, allowed Aedes aegypti to move in and thrive. Together, the movement of people, development projects, and unplanned urbanization have created the conditions for the dengue vector…
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- by Alison
We’ve talked a lot recently about the dengue vaccine, but treatments for dengue have also been making significant progress over recent years. Let’s take a brief look at three treatments for dengue, each at a different stage of development. NGI-1: inhibiting access to resources Researchers…
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