- by Alison
The threat of dengue in Europe has become a reality. At the tail end of 2018, autochthonous dengue cases appeared in Spain and France, and its vector, Aedes albopictus, has spread ever further north and was recently reported in Eindhoven. The lesser-known and less capable…
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- by Alison
It’s nearly five years since the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) published its report Dengue: Turning up the volume on a silent disaster, which in part explores the burden of dengue. Noting that “approximately 60% of dengue-related costs are not directly associated with…
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- by Gary Finnegan
We speak to Mauricio Santillana, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard University, about his new paper on the use of Google searches in disease surveillance. Not only are search engines a vital tool for fighting dengue, they connect the community in a novel way, opening the…
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- by Alison
We don’t yet have a clear picture of the true burden of dengue. It could be 58 million cases a year. It could be double that number. It could be half that number. We just don’t know. But understanding the true burden of the disease…
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