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ISNTD Infectious Thoughts

Dr. Mardiati Nadjib (Indonesia): The economic burden of dengue in Indonesia

Dr. Mardiati Nadjib is a researcher in the Health Policy and Administration Department at Universitas Indonesia, in Depok, Indonesia....

They signed the World Dengue Day petition: find out why

The global petition calling for a World Dengue Day has garnered support from signatories across the globe and across disciplines. In this...

WHO highlights dengue as a top global health threat for 2019

At the start of the year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) released a list of ten focal threats to global health that it forsees for...

The return of dengue in Guadeloupe: intensifying vector control measures

Dengue fever cases have been increasing in the last few weeks on the island of Guadeloupe. In this Infectious Thoughts interview, we...

Dengue en Guadeloupe: la lutte anti-vectorielle s'intensifie

Interview avec Joel GUSTAVE, chef du service de lutte anti vectorielle, Patrick SAINT-MARTIN, directeur du pôle de veille sanitaire et...

Karan Thapar (India): the time that dengue had the gall to get me

In October 2018, Indian journalist Karan Thapar felt unwell with what he assumed was the flu. After many years living and working in...

Dr. Abdallah Samy (Ain Shams University, Cairo): mapping the global potential distributions of two a

Dr. Abdallah Samy is a researcher based in the Entomology Department of the Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Dr. Samy's research...

Dengue advocacy: global burden and impact of dengue (animation courtesy of Takeda Vaccines)

Dengue is a viral disease that causes approximately 500,000 hospitalizations each year worldwide and approximately half of the world’s...

Dr. Rachel Lowe (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine): modelling the impact of global e

Dr. Rachel Lowe is Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Visiting Assistant Research Professor at...

Dr. Corinne Schuster-Wallace (University of Saskatchewan): creating an index to map vulnerability to

Dr. Corinne Schuster-Wallace is currently a water-health researcher within the Global Water Futures program and an Associate Professor in...

A virtual biobank to accelerate NTD diagnostics development: an Infectious Thoughts interview

Tackling dengue in Pakistan: an Infectious Thoughts interview

Unprecedented dengue in Nepal: Myths & Misunderstandings

Country experience: dengue in Ethiopia

Takeda opens new dengue vaccine manufacturing plant in Singen, Germany

Kayla de Freitas (Guyana): dengue in Guyana, collective experiences

Assessing the repellent efficacy of essential oils

They signed the World Dengue Day petition: find out why

Understanding patient mobility patterns to tackle dengue transmission

In the frontline: Disease Control Agents' role, an insight from Brazil