Dengue in the Americas: rising concern as further local cases detected
This month, a second case of locally-acquired dengue has been confirmed in Florida by health authorities. This means that in addition to...
Dengue hospitalisations in Singapore: reducing the burden of epidemics on healthcare systems
Singapore has regularly faced outbreaks of dengue. Following a severe epidemic in 2005, authorities reviewed hospital admission criteria...
Towards the biocontrol of dengue: copepods as predators of Aedes larvae in Sri Lanka
With the expansion of the disease-transmitting Aedes mosquitoes worldwide, researchers have been exploring control strategies to enhance...
Dengue cases set to break records in 2019
Dengue fever has become the fastest growing mosquito-borne disease worldwide, now present in over 100 countries compared to only nine...
Prudence Hamade (Myanmar & UK): contracting dengue while working in an outbreak
Dr. Prudence Hamade is Senior Technical Advisor at Malaria Consortium. Trained as a pediatrician, she has more than 20 years’...
Video: Dengue in Asia, behaviour change & community mobilisation
Dr. Prudence Hamade, Senior Technical Officer at the Malaria Consortium, speaks about current strategies to tackle dengue fever, focusing...
Video: Lessons learnt from the first dengue vaccine
Pr. Annelies Wilder-Smith from the World Health Organisation and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine describes the...
Video: Product development partnerships to control insect vectors of disease
Dr. Derric Nimmo from the IVCC speaks about the current challenges in insecticides to tackle disease-carrying insects and the role of...
Video: The rapidly evolving threat of dengue in humanitarian crises
Benjamin Willis from the MENTOR Initiative speaks about the threat of dengue and vector-borne diseases in humanitarian crises, and the...
Video: Climate-driven early warning systems for dengue
Dr. Rachel Lowe from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine speaks about climate change and its impact on the expansion of...
