Category: Dengue
Science Today’s post is not exactly chemical per se, but it’s very promising news on the anti-infectives front. Dengue fever is a viral disease whose range has been extending in recent years, very likely as a result of changes in the climate (it was formerly considered more of a tropical disease). It’s yet another mosquito-carried […]
Nov 7, 2023
Dengue is spreading. Can new vaccines and antivirals halt its rise?
Nature Dengue is on the march. This year, more than 4.2 million cases of the disease, which is caused by a virus transmitted by mosquitoes, had been reported by 2 October, compared with half a million in 2000. And the disease, which was once confined to the tropics, is spreading to new locations around the world, including southern […]
Nov 7, 2023
Dengue rates drop after release of modified mosquitoes in Colombia
Nature Largest-ever deployment of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes yields ‘encouraging’ results in three densely populated cities. Three cities in Colombia saw a dramatic fall in the incidence of dengue in the years following the introduction of mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia, a bacterium that prevents the insect from transmitting viruses. In neighbourhoods where the Wolbachia mosquitoes were well established, dengue incidence dropped by […]
Nov 1, 2023
What to Know About Dengue Fever as Cases Spread to New Places
New York Times Dengue, the excruciating mosquito-borne disease, is surging throughout the world and coming to places that had never had it. California just confirmed a rare U.S. case. Cases of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral illness that can be fatal, are surging around the world. The increase is occurring both in places that have […]
Oct 24, 2023
As Dengue Fever Fears Grow In U.S., First Prevention Pill Has Promising Trial
Forbes A pill to prevent dengue fever—a viral infection also called “breakbone fever” for the severe pain it can cause—could be on the horizon, according to data presented by Johnson & Johnson on Friday, promising news that could signal a future treatment against what experts warn is a pressing and growing health threat that could soon return […]
Oct 24, 2023
Breakbone fever: Dengue will soon pose a “major threat” to US, the WHO says
The Bulletin Thanks to global warming, the last eight years have been the hottest on record. Now, along with wildfire smoke and stronger storms, climate change may soon deliver to parts of the world yet another unwelcome gift: dengue, a disease so unpleasant to experience that its nickname is breakbone fever. Higher global temperatures promise to make dengue a major […]
Oct 17, 2023
Bangladesh dengue deaths top 1,000 in worst outbreak
NBC News At least 1,017 people have died so far in 2023 and nearly 209,000 have been infected, official data showed, making this the deadliest year since the first recorded epidemic in 2000. The death toll from Bangladesh’s worst dengue outbreak on record has topped 1,000 this year, official data showed, with hospitals struggling to make space for […]
Oct 3, 2023
Jamaica declares dengue outbreak
Jamaica Observer The Ministry of Health and Wellness has declared a dengue fever outbreak in Jamaica. In a release Saturday, the ministry said its National Surveillance Unit advised that the island has surpassed the dengue epidemic threshold for July and August and is on a trajectory to do the same for September. “This means, the […]
Sep 26, 2023
Five additional cases of Dengue Fever confirmed
Eyewitness News he Ministry of Health and Wellness yesterday reported that the number of confirmed cases of Dengue Fever in the country has increased to 21. Health officials just last week revealed that the Ministry’s National Communicable Disease Surveillance Unit and Department of Public Health teams in New Providence and Abaco were actively monitoring 16 positive […]
Aug 29, 2023
Outbreak News Today Florida health officials reported an additional locally transmitted dengue fever case in Miami-Dade County in the past week, bringing the total indigenous cases to 11 this year to date– Broward (2) and Miami-Dade (9) counties. Two hundred and four cases with onset in 2023 have been reported in individuals with travel history […]
Aug 15, 2023