Dengue fever has increased rapidly in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide in recent years, thanks to factors both natural and man-made.
Scientists in Taiwan believe they can explain how a form of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease that is triggering widening concern, reaps its deadly toll.
In Bangkok, researchers hunt for a vaccine to protect U.S. troops — and millions of third-world civilians — from dengue fever.
In Bangkok, researchers hunt for a vaccine to protect U.S. troops, and millions of third-world civilians, from dengue fever.
... development of a vaccine and cure for West Nile virus and Dengue fever. Led by Associate Professor Alexander Khromykh, a team of researchers from UQ's School of Molecular and Microbial ...
Humans could be protected from dengue fever by infecting the mosquitoes carrying it with a parasite, say researchers.
Ecologists have developed a new model to predict the impact of climate change on the dengue fever-carrying mosquito Aedes aegypti in Australia – information that could help limit its spread. According ...
The anti-inflammatory properties of the traditional Amazonian medicine 'cat's claw' show promise in treating dengue fever, say scientists.
Predicting how climate change will affect dengue fever-carrying mosquitoes could help researchers limit its spread. Nerissa Hannink reports.
... biologist Malcolm J. Fraser Jr. may soon lead to the eradication of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral disease that annually infects more than 50 million people worldwide.
... discovery should spur a better understanding of how dengue virus causes illness and open new ... minds—not the back—the magnitude of suffering caused by dengue fever to millions around the world. Our study ...
... for the first time the multi-country economic costs of dengue fever, the mosquito-borne illness that is a rapidly growing public health problem in tropical and sub-tropical countries. ...
... 2.5 billion people at risk of suffering this debilitating and sometimes fatal disease. Dengue Fever is prevalent in the Tropics. For that reason, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the ...
... velocities lead to lower density of mosquitoes. But the authors point out "the transmission of dengue fever is more complex, and is influenced by community intervention measures, human behavioural ...
A study in Trinidad shows that a pre-seasonal focal treatment on population densities of the mosquito Aedes aegypti significantly reduces dengue fever.
