Dengue: Global Threat.

Dengue: global health threat.

Dengue: prevention and control

1. At the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly in May 2014, several Member States raised the public health and economic burdens of dengue in the plenary discussion on the link between climate and health. 1 This report outlines the global threat to public health from dengue, the elements of the global strategy to prevent and control dengue, and essential steps to be taken, including strengthening...

Dengue: prevention and control

2. At the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly in May 2014, several Member States raised the public health and economic burdens of dengue in the plenary discussion on the link between climate and health. 2 This report outlines the global threat to public health from dengue, the elements of the global strategy to prevent and control dengue, and essential steps to be taken, including strengthening...

The Role of Vectors in Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Considerable attention has recently been drawn at the global level to the serious threat to humans caused by new, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Among the infectious vector-borne diseases, dengue, dengue haemorrhagic fever, yellow fever, plague, malaria, leishmaniasis, rodent-borne viruses and arboviruses are considered to be persisting, and sometimes re-emerging, with serious th...

Neutralizing Antibody Response and Efficacy of Novel Recombinant Tetravalent Dengue DNA Vaccine Comprising Envelope Domain III in Mice

Background: Dengue is a global arboviral threat to humans; causing 390 million infections per year. The availability of safe and effective tetravalent dengue vaccine is a global requirement to prevent epidemics, morbidity, and mortality associated with it. Methods: Five experimental groups (6 mice per group) each of 5-week-old BALB/c mice were immunized with vaccine and placebo (empty plasmid) ...

Dengue: call for urgent interventions for a rapidly expanding emerging disease

Over the past three decades, dengue fever/dengue hemorrhagic fever has been rapidly expanding in the Eastern Mediterranean Region with outbreaks documented in countries along the coastal lines of the Red Sea and Arabian Sea and in Pakistan. The paper describes the current situation in the Region and proposes specific areas for strengthening of core capacities in the short, medium and long term ...