Health officers are stepping up their fight against dengue fever as the number of confirmed cases continues to climb. More ...

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The National Dengue Control Unit (NDCU) Director, Dr Sudath Samaraweera said robust dengue mosquito eradication programmes and setting up strong campaigns to destroy mosquito breeding areas would help ...

Mosquito dangles from a leaf. Image by Syed Ali via Unsplash ... Some of the most well-known mosquito-borne diseases include malaria, dengue fever, Zika virus, and yellow fever. According to the World ...

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, issued an urgent alert about dengue fever, a painful and sometimes deadly mosquito-borne illness common in tropical and ...

Citing the absence of a specific treatment or vaccine against these diseases, Kumar emphasized that prevention through source reduction of Aedes mosquitoes remains the only effective method to combat ...

In regions with relatively stable dry season lengths, rainfall helped to flush out stagnant water, which tends to reduce mosquito breeding sites and makes dengue transmission less likely. However, ...

Both Dengue and Chikungunya are spread by Dengue mosquitoes; therefore, destroying mosquito breeding sites is essential to control the disease. According to virologists and epidemiologists, the main ...

Mosquito identification and tracking have long aided public health efforts to prevent and treat mosquito-spread diseases, such as malaria, dengue, yellow fever ... machine learning, and image ...

Health bosses have urged travellers to "take-precautions" against mosquito-borne illnesses as cases of dengue fever reach record highs in the UK. Article continues below Dengue fever is a viral ...