Caught napping

Mosquitoes genetically modified to combat dengue

For the first time mosquitoes have been engineered to fight all 4 known types of dengue 

Number of dengue cases in 2017 was the highest in a decade

There has been a more than 300 per cent hike in dengue cases since 2009, and even the total number of deaths in 2017 was the highest in the last …

39% dengue-breeding sources found inside homes

A survey of 9,641 houses in Thiruvananthapuram underlined the fact that dengue control should start right from one’s own home

Did a drug manufacturer and Philippino officials turn a blind eye to a lethal anti-dengue vaccine?

60 school children have died due to an anti-dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia, provided by a government-run immunisation program in spite of the …

Japanese encephalitis continues to claim lives; Odisha, UP worst-hit

Hundreds of children are dying despite health officials claiming 100 per cent immunisation

CENTRAL AMERICA

THE CARIBBEAN

INDIA

Virus vs virus

Can the deadly dengue be controlled by injecting its carrier mosquito with another virus?

Changing mosquitoes

INDIA

Tackling dengue

Community participation is the only way to prevent dengue in the future

Trap them all

MCD adapts new measure to combat dengue and malaria

South Asia

How this bacterial strain from mosquito gut may help combat dengue

Researchers have been artificially infecting mosquitoes with Wolbachia, a bacteria that prevents replication of disease-causing virus in the guts …

Early warning system to predict dengue possible by mining data

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun, attempted to estimate how weather conditions can lead to a more severe …

Chikungunya cases increase by 70% since 2013

Haryana saw an almost 100% spike in chikungunya cases from 2013 to 2017, according to the National Health Profile 2017

Mosquitoes in a warming world: The full cover story

David and Goliath

Living in the shadow of fear

Cracked up!

Structure of dengue virus decoded

In Short

Children dead in Firozabad: How poor health services, official laxity burdened UP city

As many as 41 people, including 36 children, have died of dengue fever so far  

Indian scientists detect new strain of dengue virus

The new genotype was found in patients who were infected suffered due to one of the worst dengue epidemics in Tamil Nadu

Climate change increasing threats from Vibrio bacteria: Study

Warming catalyses antimicrobial resistance