Dengue: a silent issue and a growing problem
Dengue is one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the world, spreading from nine countries to over one hundred in the past 50...
Tackling the burden of dengue in Cambodia: Malaria Consortium's multifaceted approach
Dengue remains a major public health problem in Cambodia, with 14,000 cases recorded every year. When outbreaks happen, hospitals are...
Tokyo 2020 Olympic & Paralympic Games: mass gatherings and disease outbreak prevention
Preparations for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo are well underway in Japan. But mass gatherings of this magnitude present...
Webinar: Dengue vaccination, where do we go from here?
Last Friday, September 28 2018, in a webinar titled "Dengue Vaccination: Where Do We Go from Here?" GDAC (the Global Dengue and...
BASF: Exploiting mosquito behaviour to control dengue
At the Worldwide Insecticide Resistance Network conference in Singapore this week, BASF entomologist and vector control expert, Dr. James...
IVCC: developing robust innovation in vector-control
IVCC was established in 2005 with a mission to deliver novel public health vector control insecticides, tools and solutions to end-users....
Guppy fish & dengue control: integrated vector management project in Cambodia
In November 2016, the Malaria Consortium completed a year-long trial evaluating viable alternatives to dengue vector control to inform...
The MENTOR Initiative: championing an integrated response to dengue outbreaks worldwide
Dengue fever is the world’s fastest growing infectious disease. Figures from the WHO estimate that “3.9 billion people in 128 countries...
Dengue in Europe: a disease of the tropics on the move?
For European citizens, thinking about dengue fever as a threat to public health in Europe might seem irrelevant… Indeed, the World Health...
Chronic shortage of funding thwarts Kenya’s dengue control efforts
Until an outbreak at the Kenyan coast, dengue fever had been a disease that scientists did not lose sleep about. A 2011 outbreak in...
