

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...


Video: Dengue in Thailand
Dr. Nakorn Premsri, from the National Vaccine Institute & the Ministry Public Health Thailand, outlines the burden of dengue in Thailand...


Video: Dengue, challenges & opportunities
Dr. Raman Velayudhan is Coordinator of the Vector Ecology & Management Unit at the World Health Organisation's Department for the Control...


Video: The threat of dengue & WHO's approach
Dr. Mwele Malecela, Director of the Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases at the World Health Organisation, speaks...


The ArboTyping tool: monitoring virus genotypes to track disease outbreaks
Monitoring of virus genotype diversity is an important aspect of tracking the emergence and evolution of these outbreaks and, in recent work


Territorial expansion of the invasive Aedes mosquito in Turkey
In recent decades, the highly invasive and disease-carrying Aedes mosquitoes have undergone a dramatic global expansion, establishing...


Mapping the spread of the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes
Over the last decades, factors including human movement and climate change have opened up opportunities for the dramatic expansion of...


US Food & Drug Administration approves dengue vaccine
This month, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its approval of the dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia, setting an important...


First dengue outbreak in the Darfur region, West Sudan: an Infectious Thoughts interview
The Darfur region in western Sudan has suffered from both conflict and civil unrest which have caused high levels of internal...


Indoor Residual Spraying: evaluating novel methods for Aedes aegypti control
The proliferation of the Aedes aegypti mosquito globally in urban areas as well as the evolving resistance to current insecticides is...