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Puerto Rico Health Secretary Carlos Mellado declared a public health emergency last week in response to a rise in cases of dengue fever. While Mellado said “cases have exceeded historical figures” ...

Dengue fever, a potentially fatal virus spread by mosquitoes, is sweeping across the Americas, breaking records with a skyrocketing rate of infections. Cases have spiked in large part due to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a health advisory warning of an increase in dengue virus infections this year. Dengue is a viral disease caused by any of the four dengue ...

Dengue is sweeping across the Western Hemisphere in numbers not seen since record-keeping began more than four decades ago, with experts warning that rising temperatures and rapid urbanization are ...

Read more about the world’s first dengue fever early warning system, launched at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Mosquitoes are infecting people across the Americas with dengue at historic levels and U.S. travelers are bringing the potentially life-threatening virus home with them. The alarming rise in ...

Puerto Rico’s health department has declared an emergency due to dengue. Cases of dengue and other mosquito-borne diseases are surging this year across the Americas, the Caribbean, and Brazil in ...

You’re likely to notice more mosquitoes this season, and that matters because several species that carry dangerous viruses ...