New understanding of dengue virus points way to possible therapies for dengue fever

Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 07:49 in Health & Medicine

Doctors have no specific drugs to treat dengue fever, a viral illness spread by mosquitoes that sickens 50 million to 100 million people worldwide each year. Instead, the only treatments they can recommend for this painful and sometimes fatal illness (20,000 deaths globally each year) are fluids, rest and non-aspirin pain and fever reducers...

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