- by Alison
Las autoridades sanitarias del Estado de Paraná de Brasil se están embarcando en la tercera etapa de un programa público de inmunización frente al dengue dirigido a individuos de 9-44 años, la primera iniciativa pública de este tipo en las Américas. La campaña de vacunación…
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- by Alison
A naturally-occurring bacteria, Wolbachia can be found in around 60% of insect species, including some types of mosquito. Wolbachia, however, it is not usually found in the Aedes aegypti mosquito. But artificially infecting an Aedes population with Wolbachia reduces the mosquitoes’ ability to transmit dengue…
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- by Gary Finnegan
Health authorities in the Paraná State of Brazil are embarking on the third stage of a public dengue immunization program targeting individuals 9-44 years of age, the first public initiative of its kind in the Americas. The community-based vaccination campaign began on September 20 and…
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- by Alison
Dengue in Cambodia is endemic all year round. But budgets are tight. For some time, The World Health Organization (WHO) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have been helping the authorities search for a cost-effective and sustainable way to tackle dengue in Cambodia. A more recent…
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- by Gary Finnegan
Zarah Caraan was working in Manila with AIESEC, the youth leadership movement when she had an encounter with a mosquito. What happened next left her with the first-hand experience of dengue in Davao – but hasn’t dimmed her wanderlust ‘I had a weekend off so…
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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 Alison
Break Dengue is excited to play a central role in bringing together dengue experts from around the world One in two people lives in areas at risk of dengue fever. Behind this startling statistic are billions of people trying to live their lives in the…
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- by Alison
Flooding last year and the arrival of a new serotype: the lethal combination behind this year’s dengue outbreak in Sri Lanka – the worst outbreak the country has ever seen. This Sri Lanka dengue outbreak has affected 15 out of Sri Lanka’s 25 districts, which…
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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 Mauro Abati
During the first half of 2017, the Brazilian state offered 30 cities the second of three doses against dengue. Those who missed out on the first dose were given a second chance to begin the vaccination program. After launching the dengue vaccination program in 2016,…
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