Dengue Fever

  • Warning System Predicts Outbreaks of Dengue Fever
    With the help of a warning system which measures the risk of dengue incidence using precipitation and air temperature, it is possible to forecast the outbreak of dengue fever up to 16 weeks in advance. This is what Yien Ling Hii concludes in the dissertation she is ...More
    3 weeks ago
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  • New Data on T Cells' Protective Role Suggests Need for New Approach to Dengue Vaccine Design
    As efforts to create a strong and effective vaccine for the dreaded dengue virus continue to hit snags, a new study from researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology offers surprising evidence that suggests the need for a revamped approach to dengue ...More
    April 15, 2013
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  • Discovery Points to New Approach to Fight Dengue Virus
    Researchers have discovered that rising temperature induces key changes in the dengue virus when it enters its human host, and the findings represent a new approach for designing vaccines against the aggressive mosquito-borne pathogen. The researchers found that the dengue ...More
    April 12, 2013
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  • Fighting Disease From Within the Mosquito May Halt Debgue, Yellow Fever, Malaria
    Scientists have revealed a new technique to introduce disease-blocking bacteria into mosquitoes, with promising results that may halt the spread of diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and potentially malaria. When infected with the bacteria Wolbachia, mosquitoes are ...More
    April 10, 2013
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  • Global Burden of Dengue is Triple the Current Estimates
    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. The research has created the first detailed and up-to-date map of dengue distribution ...More
    April 8, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Novel Method Accurately Predicts Disease Outbreaks
    A team of scientists from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has developed a novel method to accurately predict dengue fever outbreaks several weeks before they occur. The new method, known as PRedicting Infectious Disease Scalable Model (PRISM), ...More
    March 22, 2013
    Posted in News
  • 'Defective' Virus Plays Major Role in Spread of Disease, UCLA Scientists Report
    Defective viruses, thought for decades to be essentially garbage unrelated to the transmission of normal viruses, now appear able to play an important role in the spread of disease, new research by UCLA life scientists indicates. Defective viruses have genetic mutations or ...More
    March 1, 2013
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  • How the Dengue Virus Makes a Home in the City
    The mosquitoes that spread dengue fever tap into the domestic networks of humans, along with their bloodstreams, finds a study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). ...More
    January 24, 2013
    Posted in News
  • NIH-Developed Candidate Dengue Vaccine Shows Promise in Early-Stage Trial
    A candidate dengue vaccine developed by scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been found to be safe and to stimulate a strong immune response in most vaccine recipients, according to results from an early-stage clinical trial sponsored by the National ...More
    January 23, 2013
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  • New Research Could Provide Hope for Prevention and Treatment of Dengue Virus
    The Dengue virus is a mosquito-borne virus that has become a significant public health threat in recent years. Originally confined to Southeast Asia, the Dengue virus has now spread to Southern China, Africa, Indonesia, Australasia, Latin America and the United States. Each ...More
    January 17, 2013
    Posted in News
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