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    Dengue Vaccine Shows Promise in Thailand Trial

    Early analysis from the world's first ever efficacy trial of an experimental vaccine against dengue fever shows promising results. In a study involving 4,000 children in Thailand, the vaccine appeared to prevent infection by three of the four circulating strains of the virus and showed an...
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    Possible New Route To Fight Dengue Virus

    Researchers have identified enzymes and biochemical compounds called lipids that are targeted and modified by the dengue virus during infection, suggesting a potential new approach to control the aggressive mosquito-borne pathogen. Findings also suggest that medications used to treat high...
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    Bacterium Stops Mosquitoes From Transmitting Dengue

    Strains of a bacterium commonly found in fruit flies can prevent the Aedes aegypti mosquito from transmitting the virus that causes dengue fever, researchers have found. Their discovery could lead to a more effective way to control dengue worldwide. North Carolina State University mathematical...
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    How to make my presentation on Dengue interesting?

    I am taking an ecosystems and policy class, 6 students (including myself) are giving or have given ppt presentations on different diseases. It's a semi-professional environment. Three have presented already: one put a video (informative), the second live footage from when he went to Haiti...
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    how to make my presentation on Dengue interesting?

    I am taking an ecosystems and policy class, 6 students (including myself) are giving or have given ppt presentations on different diseases. It's a semi-professional environment. Three have presented already: one put a video (informative), the second live footage from when he went to Haiti...
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    NPR Reports On Dengue Vaccine Progress

    NPR's "Shots" blog examines progress in the search for a vaccine to protect against the dengue virus. WHO "estimates that 2.5 billion people worldwide are at risk of getting dengue, and most of them are in Asia and Latin America," the blog writes. Annually, between 250,000 and 500,000...
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    Epic Mosquito Season And Re-Emergence Of Dengue Fever In Florida Are Potent Reminders

    The wet spring followed by hot, summer weather throughout the US has resulted in an explosion of mosquitoes throughout the country. In addition, a recent outbreak of Dengue fever in Florida has heightened awareness about the dangers of insect bites and insect-borne disease. Dengue re-emerged in...
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    Blogging, Curing diabetes and Dengue Fever in Florida

    Is the future of the science blogging blogosphere gong to look like the Early Triassic (which followed a mass extinction event)? Bora seems to think so: Science Blogging Networks: What, Why and How Reversal of hyperglycemia in diabetic mouse models using induced-pluripotent stem (iPS)-derived...
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    Hopes For Vaccine Following New Understanding Of Dengue Fever

    Some of the human immune system's defences against the virus that causes dengue fever actually help the virus to infect more cells, according to new research published in the journal Science. The researchers behind the work, from Imperial College London, hope their new findings could help with...
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    PAHO Documents Increase In Dengue Fever Cases In Latin America

    Countries in Latin America "are bracing this year for a particularly virulent outbreak of the mosquito-borne tropical disease" known as dengue fever, after reports show an increase in the number of cases recorded this year, Agence France-Presse reports. "The Pan-American Health Organization...
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    Flightless Mosquitoes Could Fight Dengue, Study Says

    By rendering female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes - the dengue virus vector - unable to fly, scientists say they may be able to slow the spread of the virus which experts believe "affects up to 100 million people a year and threatens over a third of the world's population," the BBC reports...
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    Institute To Identify New Vaccine Targets For Tuberculosis, Malaria, Dengue Virus And

    Researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology will take aim at several of the world's most dangerous infectious diseases - tuberculosis, malaria and dengue virus -- in a five-year, $18.8 million federally-funded set of projects seeking to make new inroads toward vaccines...
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    Institute To Identify New Vaccine Targets For Tuberculosis, Malaria, Dengue Virus And

    Researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology will take aim at several of the world's most dangerous infectious diseases - tuberculosis, malaria and dengue virus -- in a five-year, $18.8 million federally-funded set of projects seeking to make new inroads toward vaccines...
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    NBC News Examines 'Fastest Growing' Vector-Borne Disease: Dengue

    Dengue is the "fastest growing" vector-borne disease worldwide, NBC News' "World Blog" writes in a story examining the disease. "It used to be contained largely to south-east Asia, but has been spreading, and is now found in South America, Africa, south Asia and parts of Australia. It recently...
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