Countermeasures for Dengue Fever in Cairns Tropical Public Health Unit

Dengue fever (DF) and dengue haemorrhagic fever are vector-borne diseases of public health importance in tropical, subtropical and temperate regions of the world

Dengue fever (DF) and dengue haemorrhagic fever are vector-borne diseases of public health importance in tropical, subtropical and temperate regions of the world (Gubler 1998). It is a popular belief that Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) is the sole vector of the four distinct serotypes of dengue virus that causes the spectrum of disease symptoms collectively known as “dengue” (including DF, dengue hae...

Epidemic Dengue/Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever: A Global Public Health Problem in the 21st Century*

Dengue has been known in the Americas since the 18th century. During the 1960s and 1970s dengue pandemics occurred in the Caribbean, northern South America and Central America, and, during the 1980s and 1990s, virtually every country in the Americas experienced dengue epidemics. Dengue serotypes 1, 2 and 4 circulate widely and, since 1994, DEN-3 has circulated in Central America and Mexico. The...

The Need for More Research and Public Health Interventions on Dengue Fever in Burkina Faso

1 Montreal School of Public Health (ESPUM), Montreal, Canada, 2 University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM), Montreal, Canada, 3 Dengue Vaccines Initiative, International Vaccines Institute, Seoul, South Korea, 4 Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, CNRST, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 5 Identités et Différenciations de l’Environnement des Espaces et des Sociétés – Caen (IDE...

Yellow Fever Vaccination: An Issue for Non-endemic Tropical Countries

Dengue Fever Serology in Febrile Patients in Southeast Iran

Background: Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease that has rapidly spread in all regions in recent years. There is little information on dengue fever epidemiology in Iran. High prevalence of dengue fever in Pakistan bordering southeast Iran emphasizes the need for paying more attention to monitoring of the disease in this region. The aim of this study was to study the dengue...