World Dengue Day 6/8

ISNTD Infectious Thoughts

Gregory Rose (Cambodia): contracting dengue while working in Cambodian slums

Gregory Rose, now Health & WASH Technical Team Manager at the British Red Cross, had been working as a consultant for WHO in Cambodia...

Regulatory approvals boost dengue prophylaxis

Two important developments have emerged in October regarding the first dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia (CYD-TDV), a live attenuated tetravalent...

Patient testimonial: Shermila Fernando's family & the impact of dengue in Sri Lanka

Shermila Fernando is a Sri Lankan mother: in 2012, her youngest son contracted dengue and in 2016 it was her eldest son, who spent nine...

Patient testimonial: Camila & the impact of dengue in Colombia, courtesy of Takeda Vaccines

Camila Lopez Davalos is a young girl from Cali, Colombia who loves painting. Dengue fever is endemic in Colombia, with regular outbreaks...

Dr. Stephen Thomas (State University of New York): capturing subjective patient experience of dengue

In a recent paper published in PLOS NTDs*, a group of researchers is capturing a more thorough and realistic overview of the true burden...

Dengue, WASH and new models of collaboration in an era of climate change

Climate change has made a great impact on dengue and other vector-borne disease Technology is now allowing for greater collaboration...

Dengue returns to Spain: first autochthonous cases in the south of the country

On 4 October 2018, the Spanish National Reference Laboratory for Arboviruses confirmed two locally acquired dengue cases in Spain; while...

Dengue: a silent issue and a growing problem

Dengue is one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the world, spreading from nine countries to over one hundred in the past 50...

Tackling the burden of dengue in Cambodia: Malaria Consortium's multifaceted approach

Dengue remains a major public health problem in Cambodia, with 14,000 cases recorded every year. When outbreaks happen, hospitals are...

Tokyo 2020 Olympic & Paralympic Games: mass gatherings and disease outbreak prevention

Preparations for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo are well underway in Japan. But mass gatherings of this magnitude present...

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