Lisa Schnirring Amid record dengue cases in the Americas region this year, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said in a new risk assessment that the disease poses a high risk to the region owing to multiple factors, including the impacts of climate change and other environmental factors, as well as resource-limited health systems. The...
This transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image depicts a number of round, Dengue virus particles that were revealed in this tissue specimen. Credit: CDC/ Frederick Murphy Two people in Southern California have come down with dengue fever without traveling outside the United States, where the mosquito-borne illness is rare, health officials said. A Pasadena resident was...
By Jennifer Rigby October 23, 2023 (Reuters) – A pill for dengue fever developed by Johnson & Johnson appeared to protect against a form of the virus in a handful of patients in a small human challenge trial in the United States, according to data presented by the company on Friday. There are currently no specific treatments...
by Maddie Massy-Westropp, University of New South Wales Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from UNSW Sydney and Stanford University have shown that dengue virus can disrupt the immune system in children, leading to more severe disease. These changes in the immune system, referred to as “immune confusion,” could be used to diagnose at-risk patients and...
A California health department has confirmed its first locally-acquired case of dengue virus in one of its residents. Alex ArgerPosted: 6:22 p.m. EDT Oct 23, 2023An “extremely rare” illness completely foreign to the state of California has been discovered there, and its appearance is not associated with travel. On Friday, officials with the health department...
by KU Leuven Researchers at the KU Leuven Rega Institute and CD3 have developed an ultrapotent inhibitor of the dengue virus, which causes the tropical disease known as dengue. The teams collaborated closely with Janssen Pharmaceutica, N.V. The antiviral molecule is exceptionally effective against all known dengue variants and could be used for therapeutic and prevention...
A new study from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine shows that, depending on the interpretation criteria, serological tests can distinguish recent Zika infections in areas where dengue is endemic. A new study from the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine shows that, depending on the interpretation criteria, serological tests...
