Can the dreaded Aedes mosquito carry and transmit three of the world's most feared viruses -- Zika, dengue and Chikungunya -- all at the same time?
Dengue virus apparently exhibit worsened symptoms of the disease in countries with low prevalence of the virus like in the US.
The first public vaccine program for dengue fever is presented in the Philippines for millions of school children. It is the world's initially authorized immunization against a mosquito-borne illness that the World Health Organization estimates infects 390 million individuals each year.
El Niño may be causing the spread of the dengue virus.
Dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease that results in a flu-like illness, now has a vaccine.
There may be a link between disease and climate change. Scientists have found that the epidemics of dengue are lined to high temperatures brought by the El Niño weather system.
