Web Links: News articles about Dengue Fever
| Dowell Netherlands - June 15, 2010 | |
| Boy, 7, Third Dengue Death This Month A 12-year-old boy from Banjar Kalang Anyar, Tababan, became the latest victim of Bali’s dengue outbreak when he died of the haemorrhagic form of the disease at Sanglah General Hospital last Tuesday. He was admitted on Sunday. |
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| Date Added: June 15 2010 | Visits: 12 |
| Dowell -Netherlands - June 1, 2010 | |
| Remove Breeding Sources Avoid Dengue Fever May and June are the rainy season in Taiwan, which means that mosquitoes may breed quickly inside water containers and cause a dengue fever epidemic. Therefore, the Center for Disease Control (CDC/Taiwan) urges the public to clean the containers immediately to avoid such an outbreak. in Ghana. |
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| Date Added: June 02 2010 | Visits: 16 |
| Thai Visa - May 31, 2010 | |
| Dengue fever spreading in the North and Northeast BANGKOK (NNT) -- Dengue fever is found to be spreading in many provinces, especially in the North and the Northeast, prompting public health officials to urgently destroy breeding sites of mosquitoes to prevent further spread of the disease. Nakhon Ratchasima Public Health Office has dispatched officials to spray chemicals to kill mosquitoes in many community areas, notably at schools and temples. There have been 486 patients found thus far in the province, and an eight-year-old girl has recently died from the disease. The situation in the northeastern province of Buri Ram was similar to Nakhon Ratchasima as the number of patients has rocketed to 360 people with one fatality reported, one fold higher than the same period of last year. Most of the patients were found to be children aged between 5 and 14. |
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| Date Added: May 31 2010 | Visits: 12 |
| ABC News Online - May 29, 2010 | |
| Expert warns dengue threat may spread A researcher is warning that the asian tiger mosquito has the potential to make dengue fever a problem in southern parts of Australia. The species has been found in the Torres Strait but is yet to become established on the Australian mainland. |
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| Date Added: May 28 2010 | Visits: 10 |
| Medical News Today - May 26, 2010 | |
| Advanced BioScience Laboratories To Manufacture Hawaii Biotech's Dengue Vaccine For Clinical Trial Hawaii Biotech, Inc. and Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc. (ABL) announced today they are partnering for preclinical development of a dengue vaccine. Hawaii Biotech plans to begin a company-sponsored Phase 1 human clinical study with its tetravalent dengue vaccine candidate later this year. Under a contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), ABL will oversee the manufacture, assembly and testing of supplies. |
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| Date Added: May 26 2010 | Visits: 19 |
| New York Times - May 24, 2010 | |
| Outbreak of Dengue Fever Is Reported in Florida, Health Officials Say Dengue fever, a growing scourge in the tropics, has established itself in a popular American tourist destination, federal health officials reported last week. |
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| Date Added: May 24 2010 | Visits: 14 |
| Dowell Netherlands - May 23, 2010 | |
| 11,700 dengue patients | Sri Lanka Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena will direct his attention to the setting up of the Presidential Task Force on Health (PTF) which is scheduled to hold its inaugural meeting on Tuesday (May 25). |
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| Date Added: May 23 2010 | Visits: 11 |
| ABC News - May 20, 2010 | |
| Dengue Fever Hits Key West More than two dozen cases of locally-acquired dengue fever have hit the resort town of Key West, Fla., in the past nine months, officials from the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. |
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| Date Added: May 21 2010 | Visits: 16 |
| Medical News Today - May 20, 2010 | |
| Inviragen's Dengue Vaccine To Begin Clinical Testing Inviragen has announced the initiation of the first clinical trial of its vaccine to protect against dengue fever. The trial, to be conducted at Saint Louis University, is designed to assess the safety of Inviragen's investigational dengue vaccine. |
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| Date Added: May 21 2010 | Visits: 19 |
| New Straights Times - May 9, 2010 | |
| Fewer infections but more are dying KUALA LUMPUR: The death toll from dengue is climbing despite the efforts of the Health Ministry to contain the scourge. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Ismail Merican has urged people to keep their surroundings clean to curb aedes breeding grounds. Two more people died of the disease last week in Perak and Malacca. Both died of dengue shock syndrome. Last week also saw 790 new cases of dengue fever and dengue haemorrhagic fever reported nationwide |
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| Date Added: May 08 2010 | Visits: 22 |
| Med India - May 8, 2010 | |
| Some Immune Defenses Encourage Further Dengue Viral Attacks; New Research Discovers Some of the human immune system's own defences against the dengue fever virus actually backfire by enabling the virus to infect even more cells, a recent study by scientists from Imperial College London has revealed. |
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| Date Added: May 08 2010 | Visits: 19 |
| Dowell -Netherlands - April 27, 2010 | |
| Unlocking the mysteries of dengue SOME people who come down with dengue get haemorrhagic fever, with severe headache, joint pain and the characteristic dengue rash. Others simply get away with running a mild temperature. |
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| Date Added: April 26 2010 | Visits: 15 |
| ScienceDaily - April 2, 2010 | |
| Dengue fever -- caused by a virus transmitted by mosquitoes -- threatens 2.5 billion people each year and there is no vaccine or treatment. New research by Michigan State University entomologists has found that a bacterium can stop dengue viruses from replicating in the mosquitoes. | |
| Date Added: April 05 2010 | Visits: 26 |
| MedInida - December 26, 2009 | |
| Researchers from University of Queensland's (UQ) School of Biological Sciences claim to found a way to control the spread of dengue fever. | |
| Date Added: March 28 2010 | Visits: 32 |
| MedIndia - February 24, 2010 | |
| According to British scientists and UC Irvine, they have developed a new strain of mosquitoes in which the females cannot fly and may help curb the transmission of dengue fever. |
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| Date Added: March 28 2010 | Visits: 22 |