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Mosquito-borne virus epidemics sweeping Pacific region have social and economic costs

Political leaders in the Pacific are being warned that mosquito-borne viruses could have serious social and economic costs for the next five years. The region is dealing with an unprecedented chain of dengue fever, zika...

4 April, 2014

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Dengue virus becomes more dangerous

The dengue virus has adapted. No longer does the virus breed only in freshwater bodies. Recent samples have shown it multiplying even in sewage puddles abundant across Karachi. In the two-room dengue surveillance cell...

28 March, 2014

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Dengue virus’ method of entry into cells uncovered by research

The University of North Carolina’s Ping Liu recently presented research on how the dengue virus infects cells, which could assist in development of vaccines and drug treatment. Liu researched dengue fever with cell...

3 March, 2014

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New vaccine design holds potential

Research out of the University of Michigan and Purdue University has found an important aspect of how both the dengue virus and West Nile virus replicate in their host cells. The scientists believe this will lead to a...

26 February, 2014

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Preparing for a dengue fever vaccine: why Brazil’s ahead of the game

Six dengue vaccine candidates are in various stages of clinical development but developing countries will not receive the benefits if planning does not start now. Dengue fever is now endemic in more than 125 countries...

17 February, 2014

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Indian scientists break dengue code, develop non-infectious vaccine from yeast

Indian scientists have achieved an important breakthrough in their efforts to develop a vaccine to prevent the deadly dengue. Supported by the Department of Biotechnology under the Ministry of Science & Technology...

23 September, 2013

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New strategy to disarm the dengue virus

A new strategy that cripples the ability of the dengue virus to escape the host immune system has been discovered by A*STAR’s Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN). This strategy could lead to the world’s first universal...

16 August, 2013

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First dengue vaccine expected to be approved

A French pharmaceutical company says it hopes to have the first vaccine against dengue very soon. Sanofi Pasteur is finalising tests in Africa and Asia and plans to start producing the vaccine by the end of the year The...

29 July, 2013

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Researchers find new method of detecting dengue virus

In a report in BioMed Central’s open access Virology Journal published last Friday, researchers showed a low cost method of detecting the mosquito-bourne dengue virus by using gold nanoparticles. Half of the world’s...

12 July, 2013

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Researchers study existence of cross-protection between multiple strains of infectious disease

Using a unique data set spanning 40 years of dengue fever incidence in Thailand, an international team led by biostatistician Nicholas Reich at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has for the first time estimated...

8 July, 2013

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