- by Mauro Abati
Happy new year? Not for Rodrigo Buffarah Coelho, a 38-year old port terminal manager from Paranaguá in the Brazilian state of Paraná. His encounter with a mosquito at a New Year’s Eve party made him another high-profile victim of dengue in Paranaguá, a city hitting…
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- by Alison
Half a century ago, dengue was under control; DDT and spraying kept Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at bay. In stark contrast, dengue is now a serious global health threat. Over the past four decades, dengue’s global threat has grown as urbanization and globalization have helped the…
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- by Alison
Lying in the northernmost region of Queensland in North East Australia, the city of Cairns is no stranger to dengue. This gateway to the Great Barrier Reef has seen almost 40 outbreaks and more than two thousand cases since 2000, including more than 900 cases…
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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 Alison
Data on where people have been in the days leading up to their diagnosis promises to provide a novel source of insight on the source of infections. But accessing that data isn’t as easy as you might expect, as the Fight Dengue app’s creator explains.…
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- by Gary Finnegan
Commitment of veteran malaria campaigners to tackle dengue is a sign of how serious global public health advocates take the disease Leading global health organization Malaria Consortium is hosting a roundtable in London this week and launching a new report in an effort to put dengue fever…
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- by Mauro Abati
The Paraná dengue battle is not new, but high rates of dengue fever in the region have prompted the government to take serious, and innovative actions to tackle the disease. Paraná is a big and important state located in southern Brazil. Its economy is the…
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- by Gary Finnegan
The Paraná dengue vaccine program, introduced earlier this year, will pay off by reducing spending on hospital care as well as keeping people in work and protecting the tourist industry. That’s the view of Health Secretary Michele Caputo, the official responsible for running the ground-breaking…
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- by Alison
€10,000 in funding for projects and ideas that integrate vaccine into anti-dengue strategy Community health projects can help societies to embrace new tools in a way that ensures buy-in from local people. That is why we have launched the €10,000 Break Dengue Community Action Prize…
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- by Gary Finnegan
The dengue vaccine launch in Mexico could be the missing link to successfully combating the dengue virus in the country home to over 122 million people. Doctors in Mexico’s private clinics are offering vaccination against dengue fever. The country is among nine other countries to approve the…
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