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In order to slow the spread of the disease and work to achieve herd immunity, Brazil preemptively purchased the entire global stock of Qdenga dengue two-dose vaccine made by the Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda in January 2024. However, only six million doses were planned to be created for 2024, which would only be enough to vaccinate 1.5 ...
Increasing global temperatures wrought by greenhouse gas emissions have boosted the number of dengue cases, new research shows. Climate change could broaden global reach of dengue fever Skip to ...
Severe dengue is a medical emergency, and people with the following symptoms should immediately go to the emergency room: belly pain or tenderness, vomiting at least three times in 24 hours ...
Dengue is typically spread through infected female Aedes aegypti (Egyptian tiger) mosquitoes that thrive in stagnant water, passing from one person to another through mosquito bites. The disease ...
The CDC issued an alert to health care providers and officials about the ongoing spread of dengue cases. In New Jersey, the CDC has reported 41 cases contracted abroad, 20 of them concentrated in ...
Epidemic dengue has become more common since the 1980s. By the late 1990s, dengue was the most important mosquito-borne disease affecting humans after malaria, with around 40 million cases of dengue fever and several hundred thousand cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever each year. Significant outbreaks of dengue fever tend to occur every five or ...
Mild cases of dengue fever can easily be confused with several common diseases including Influenza, measles, chikungunya, and zika. [61] [62] Dengue, chikungunya and zika share the same mode of transmission (Aedes mosquitoes) and are often endemic in the same regions, so that it is possible to be infected simultaneously by more than one disease ...
South America and beyond is seeing the spread of dengue exacerbated as rising temperatures and the El Nino weather pattern in the Pacific contribute to prolonged dengue seasons and the ...