Only a few mosquito species are vectors for the dengue virus. What is a vector? A vector is a vehicle that carries and transmits a disease to its host organism. Vectors include animals and ...

Vector control. To reduce or prevent dengue virus transmission there is currently no alternative to vector control. Most endemic countries have a vector control component in their dengue control ...

Climate change poses as a biggest environmental threat. It substantially affects pathogens (parasites, viruses and bacteria), ...

3. Challenges to suppressing dengue in Singapore Singapore’s vector control programme, which seeks to control population numbers of the dengue vector, was officially introduced in 1970.

One study indicates that dengue is significantly underreported in India, revealing that the actual number of cases is 282 ...

Chugai Pharm signs collaboration agreement with GSK's Global Health Unit for development of anti-dengue virus antibody: Tokyo Friday, January 31, 2025, 09:00 Hrs [IST] Chugai Phar ...

Dengue fever is a disease spread by the vector called Aedes mosquito, which breeds on still water that gets collected especially after the end of the summer. It is primarily transmitted by the ...

Dengue can be fatal in certain cases and therefore, it is important to protect yourself from the vector-borne disease. Here, take a look at some tips to protect yourself from dengue and other ...

On Tuesday, some residents on Lunalilo Home Road got notices from the Department of Health of a confirmed travel-related case of dengue virus.

A total of 233 accumulated cases of dengue nationwide were reported this Friday by the Ministry of health (Minsa), through ...

Till March 19 this year, 52 cases of dengue were recorded in the city. Three fresh cases have been reported in the last one week, it said. According to the civic report on vector-borne diseases ...

Punjab Minister for Primary and Secondary Healthcare Khawaja Imran Nazir has instructed the preparation of Standard Operating ...