Researchers have identified the dose of dengue virus in human blood that is required to infect mosquitoes when they bite. Mosquitoes are essential for transmitting the virus between people so the findings have important implications ...
May 13, 2013
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Clinical trials for a dengue fever treatment could start within a year, following a discovery by University of Queensland scientists.
Sep 9, 2015
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The global burden of dengue infection is more than triple current estimates from the World Health Organization, according to a multinational study published today in the journal Nature.
Apr 7, 2013
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New research suggests that dengue—a viral infection spread by mosquitos—could be suppressed in Singapore in a highly cost-effective manner through the release of mosquitos infected with the bacterium Wolbachia. Stacy ...
Oct 13, 2021
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The number of cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Singapore reached 258 Monday, with health authorities warning it is no longer contained in one part of the city-state and likely to spread further.
Sep 5, 2016
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Obesity in children is associated with double the risk of hospitalization for dengue virus infection, according to a study published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Jul 2, 2024
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A team of researchers has identified novel therapeutic monoclonal antibody candidates isolated from Zika-infected patients and new strategies for Zika virus diagnostics. An article published today in the renowned scientific ...
Jul 15, 2016
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The higher a person's immunity to dengue virus, the lower their risk of Zika infection, an international team of scientists led by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Yale School of Public Health ...
Feb 7, 2019
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About 40 percent of the global population is at risk for contracting dengue—the most important mosquito-borne viral infection and a close "cousin" of the Zika virus—and yet, no effective treatment or safe licensed vaccine ...
Mar 28, 2019
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French health care giant Sanofi Pasteur will soon test a vaccine against dengue fever in India amid concerns about the increasingly global spread of the disease, reports said Monday.
Nov 19, 2012
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