Dengue fever and dengue haemorrhagic fever are important arthropod-borne viral diseases. Each year, there are ∼50 million dengue infections and ∼500,000 individuals are hospitalized with ...

The dengue virus is transmitted to humans via the bite of an infected mosquito. Only a few mosquito species are vectors for the dengue virus. What is a vector? A vector is a vehicle that carries ...

The World Bank announced Sunday a 10 million US dollar grant for Haiti to help the Government respond to the increasing, unaffordable prices of food for poor families. In Haiti, the prices of rice ...

SINGAPORE - There were more than 13,600 cases of dengue locally in 2024, an increase of over 36 per cent from the year before. According to the latest statistics on the National Environment Agency ...

Many Haitians have been forced to flee due to gang violence The number of people internally displaced by gang violence in Haiti has tripled to more than one million, the United Nations ...

More than 5,600 people were killed and thousands more injured or kidnapped in 2024 due to soaring levels of gang violence in Haiti, the United Nations said. In a statement released on Tuesday ...

Queensland Health staff in Townsville are treating an elderly man with dengue fever and a middle-aged man with Japanese encephalitis (JEV). The dengue case is Townsville's first breakthrough case ...

The Ministry of Health's Arbovirus Monitoring Panel reported 6,484,890 probable dengue cases and 5,972 deaths from the disease in 2024 in Brazil. An additional 908 deaths are still under ...