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A novel disease prevention strategy—targeting a mosquito that spreads the dengue virus—significantly reduces both the mosquito numbers and cases of disease across a community, finds a major new study.
Oct 9, 2025
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The first global standard that harmonizes what outcomes to measure in dengue treatment trials has been published Oct. 7 in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Co-led by researchers at King's and the University of Oxford, this ...
Oct 8, 2025
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An international team of researchers has demonstrated that the tetravalent dengue vaccine known as Qdenga provided significant protection against the disease under real-world conditions, during the large 2024 epidemic in ...
Oct 1, 2025
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West Nile virus is the leading cause of mosquito-borne illness in the continental United States. As of Sept. 23, over 1,100 human cases of West Nile disease have been reported across 42 states, according to the U.S. Centers ...
Sep 26, 2025
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A study published in the journal One Earth points out that risk assessments for diseases transmitted by infected animals (zoonotic) and by vectors (such as mosquitoes) need to be unified and integrated. Such actions could ...
Sep 18, 2025
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Warmer weather across the globe is reshaping the landscape of human health. A case in point is dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease once confined largely to the tropics, which often brings flu-like symptoms, and without ...
Sep 9, 2025
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The Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits dengue virus has mostly been considered an urban mosquito, but a new study of rural communities in the Peruvian Amazon suggests that pattern appears to be shifting.
Aug 28, 2025
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A relatively new class of insecticide that can be disseminated on something the size of a sheet of paper offers protection for up to a year against mosquitoes that spread malaria, as well as dengue, West Nile, yellow fever, ...
Aug 27, 2025
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US health authorities have suspended the license for the Ixchiq vaccine against the chikungunya virus following reports of "serious adverse events," the drug's French maker said Monday.
Aug 25, 2025
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Researchers at Northeastern University can predict the emergence of a dengue fever outbreak with 80% accuracy—a breakthrough for public health officials tasked with preparing careworkers to handle spikes in the disease.
Aug 22, 2025
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