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Group: Dengue Mapping Discussion Group

Time for a Global Dengue Day

ASEAN Dengue Day is great – but it’s time to go global The annual awareness day brings Asian countries together to combat dengue fever. But ...

Group: Dengue Diagnostics

Wanted: a simple test for diagnosing dengue

Diagnosing dengue has become a major research focus follow calls from the WHO for point-of-care testing to be used prior to dengue vaccination. The World ...

Group: Dengue Clinical and Epidemiology Discussion Area

Dengue in the USA: Avoiding larger outbreaks and the wider spread of vector-borne disease

Dengue in the USA is mainly confined to its overseas territories, Puerto Rico and American Samoa in particular. The US mainland does, however, occasionally experience ...

Group: Dengue Vaccine Discussion Group

What are the benefits of dengue vaccination?

Life is full of decisions. But no decision is ever black or white. Each has an upside and a downside. Every health decision – medical ...

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Articles

Oral Antibiotic Treatment of Mice Exacerbates the Disease Severity of Multiple Flavivirus Infections

by Thackray LB et al.

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 ...

Advances in using Internet searches to track dengue

by Shihao Yang, Samuel C. Kou , Fred Lu, John S. Brownstein, Nicholas Brooke, Mauricio Santillana

Our findings confirm that combining historical dengue incidence information with dengue-related Google search data, in a self-adjusting manner, leads to better near real-time dengue activity estimates than those obtained with ...

Rise in dengue publications

by Gary Finnegan

The number of publications about dengue fever has grown strongly since 1960. Click on link in 'useful resources' to the right of this text According to an analysis of PubMed ...

Dengue vaccine: WHO position paper

by World Health Organisation

This article presents the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendations on the use of dengue vaccine excerpted from the WHO position paper on dengue vaccine published in the Weekly epidemiological ...

News

Chikungunya Outbreak Response

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

Important call for action: Chikungunya Outbreak

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

Zika virus infection website

Continuously updated with information and resources

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

‘Dengue mosquito’ populations plummet in Brazil trial

GM mosquito crashes Aedes aegypti

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

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