Tag: dengue mission buzz

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  June 28, 2016 - by Laura Villadiego

  ASEAN countries consider new dengue vaccine

  After decades of research, the World Health Organization endorsed earlier this year the first vaccine against dengue, a virus that infects about 390 million people in the world every year and has no known treatment. Now the vaccine faces its next challenge: adoption. In the…

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  June 17, 2015 - by Wanweena Tangsathianraphap

  ASEAN Dengue Day: A hand in hand fight

  ASEAN Dengue Day report from Bangkok, Thailand Since its first outbreak in the late 1950s in the Philippines and Thailand, dengue has emerged as a public health burden in Southeast Asia and has become a leading cause of hospitalization and death among children in the…

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