According to the World Health Organization (WHO), dengue is the “fastest spreading vector disease” in the world (1). Approximately half of the worldwide population is
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), dengue is the “fastest spreading vector disease” in the world (1). Approximately half of the worldwide population is
‘Tis the season for the obligatory “best of” lists for 2015. We thought we’d take a look back at some of this year’s notable diseases
On Thursday, October 29th, Hawaii state officials announced two confirmed and four probable cases of locally acquired dengue fever in residents of the Big Island
Cases of dengue fever have increased in Southeast Asia over the last few months. Vietnam has reported more than 20,000 cases of dengue so far
The Brazilian Ministry of Health has reported 746,000 registered cases of Dengue fever and 229 confirmed deaths since January 2015 [1,3]. This marks a
Over 600,000 people are expected to be traveling from around the world to attend the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which began on June 12 in
As an aspiring or expert digital disease detective you are probably familiar with one of the many efforts to monitor diseases such as dengue, by
Everything hurt. For the first time in my life, I could feel the tiny muscles behind my eyeballs. And they ached. It all ached. I
Mother Nature decided that four serotypes of the dengue virus was not enough, so she threw number five our way. Nikos Vasilakis, PhD of the