Dengue Fever Stories
- The West Nile virus has raised the alarm in certain states after some mosquitoes tested positive for the strain.
- The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warns that dengue is an illness being overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Research from the United Kingdom showed limiting global warming could help avoid more than three million annual cases of dengue fever.
- What's the latest news on vaccines for the mosquito-borne diseases Zika, chikungunya, and dengue?
- New research from Johns Hopkins researchers and others finds that the world's first approved dengue vaccine may do more harm than good in certain areas of the world.
- A new macromolecule is designed to fight off an array of deadly viral infections, including the Zika virus, Ebola, and dengue fever.
- A dengue vaccine developed by NIH scientists protected everyone given the shot against the virus in a promising small study published on Wednesday,
- A new study suggests that chikungunya is commonly misdiagnosed as the similar dengue fever.
- The mayor of Hawaii's Big Island declared a state of emergency on Monday to deal with a growing outbreak of dengue fever, spread by infected mosquitoes, with 250 cases confirmed over the past four months.
- Some doctors believe health authorities were slow to believe cases of Zika were on the rise.
- The number of dengue cases in Thailand is expected to spike this year, a researcher said, as experts from across Asia met to discuss introduction of the first ever dengue vaccine to control and prevent the disease.
- Brazil becomes the third nation in less than a month to approve the world's first dengue vaccine.