Global Dengue Lab is a sharing and collaboration platform for professionals who work on the prevention, surveillance or treatment of dengue fever. Run by the Break Dengue initiative, it offers a unique opportunity to engage with professionals from different fields of expertise around the world, providing one central point to help tackle the burden of dengue collectively. Conversations include research and development of new techniques and technologies; best-practice sharing; project development and partnerships. You can read more here.
Dengue is no stranger to West Africa. The potentially deadly virus might even be endemic in many countries in the region. The problem is, nobody ...
When mosquitoes bite, the effect may be much more than just skin deep. Researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, found mosquito ...
“Dengue is now endemic in Pakistan…” said Dr. Muhammad Uzair Mukhtar from the Laboratory of Vector and Vector-Borne Disease at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural ...
Dengue fever in the Asia Pacific continues to threaten the quality of public health in the region. Increasing populations and warmer climates are among the ...
Dengue fever is a global concern - we urge the United Nations to designate a World Dengue Day at its General Assembly in September 2019 Find out more and add your ...
A new publication by the GBD 2016 Brazil Collaborators assessed how ongoing political, economic, and epidemiological changes in Brazil have affected health and the health system, and how these data can help ...
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has convened an inquiry into how research can be conducted ethically in global health emergencies. The aim of the project is to help to ...
Although the outcome of flavivirus infection can vary from asymptomatic to lethal, environmental factors modulating disease severity are poorly defined. Here, we observed increased susceptibility of mice to severe West ...
In response to the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) Outbreak a new area on the Global Health Network has been setup to provide researchers and health professionals working on CHIKV tools and resources to aid their research. Please check for more details ... Read more
Researchers in Brazil want to share that there have been 40 confirmed deaths from Chikungunya in Fortaleza. This is a significant increase in both mortality and the severity of the disease. The Fortaleza research team are part of the REDe ... Read more
The aim of this website is to provide a platform for sharing and developing research priorities, protocols and data capture systems alongside the latest epidemiological and clinical management information about Zika infection. Also in Espanol and Portugues. Read more
Releasing genetically modified Aedes Aegypti sterile mosquitoes has caused the species’ population to fall by 90% in local trial sites. These results have raised expectations that this novel approach could be used to defeat dengue in combination with traditional vector ... Read more
