http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Worldwide, dengue fever strikes roughly 50 million people every year and takes the lives of thousands, but specific therapies or a vaccine for this mosquito-borne illness remain unavailable. A report coming out in the online journal mBio® on December 13 describes a new discovery about how the body fights the dengue virus, a finding that could explain differences in the ability to fight off the virus and help in developing a drug to boost this response. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-discovery-body-dengue-fever.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:25:09 EST news242933103 Researchers in South East Asia have identified two genetic variants associated with increased susceptibility to severe dengue. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, Singapore, offers clues to how the body responds to dengue infection. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-genome-wide-association-dengue-candidate-susceptibility.html Genetics Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:00:15 EST news237981719 Already cursed by floods and suicide bombings, Pakistan now faces a new menace from an unprecedented outbreak of the deadly tropical disease dengue fever. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-dengue-fever-infects-pakistan.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:19:23 EST news236488753 A novel compound inhibits dengue virus, as well as other closely related important human pathogens. The research is published in the September 2011 issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-small-molecule-hobbles-dengue-vitro.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:23:06 EST news235642949 In dengue-endemic areas such as South-East Asia, in contrast to conventional thinking, rural areas rather than cities may bear the highest burden of dengue fever—a viral infection that causes sudden high fever, severe headache, and muscle and joint pains, and can lead to a life-threatening condition, dengue hemorrhagic fever. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-rural-areas-higher-dengue-fever.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:47:56 EST news233945225 Scientists have made a promising advance for controlling dengue fever, a tropical disease spread by mosquito bites. They've rapidly replaced mosquitoes in the wild with skeeters that don't spread the dengue virus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-specialized-mosquitoes-tropical-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:32:52 EST news233411352 The spread of Dengue fever in northern Australia may be controlled by a bacterium that infects mosquitoes that harbor the virus, Australian and U.S. researchers report Aug. 25 in two papers published in the journal Nature. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-dengue-fever.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:26:27 EST news233411067 The ten studies in this special issue document the substantial and growing burden of dengue in the Americas, Africa and Asia, and the burden of a chikungunya outbreak in India. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-world-health-latest-dengue-bulletin.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:16:45 EST news227531390 More than a thousand years ago, somewhere in Southeast Asia, a fateful meeting occurred between a mosquito-borne virus that infected mainly monkeys and a large, susceptible group of humans. The result: the world's first outbreak of dengue fever. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-fever-forest.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:56:33 EST news227195780 Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Google.org have found web-based search data to be a viable source of information for early detection and monitoring of outbreaks of dengue, an emerging mosquito-borne virus found in tropical areas of the world. Because search data allows the capture of disease-related queries in near real time, it could help public health officials in the more than 100 countries affected by dengue respond more quickly to nascent epidemics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-web-dengue.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 31 May 2011 10:43:15 EST news226057376 Mast cells, which can help the body respond to bacteria and pathogens, also apparently sound the alarm around viruses delivered by a mosquito bite, according to researchers at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-cell-dengue-virus.html Medical research Mon, 16 May 2011 15:00:13 EST news224770099