World Dengue Resources Type: Dengue around the world

Why we urgently need to wake up to the public health threat on the continent

Zarah Caraan was working in Manila with AIESEC, the youth leadership movement when she had an encounter with a mosquito.

The French island of Reunion is currently facing an unprecedented number of dengue cases– a more than 30-fold increase on 2017.

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.

In the first article in our two-part series on Wolbachia, we looked at how Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes hold the key to reducing dengue outbreaks.