LONDON (Reuters) - Around 390 million people are infected each year with dengue fever - the world's fastest-spreading tropical disease - more than triple the current estimate by the World Health Organization, experts said on Sunday.Full story
LISBON (Reuters) - An outbreak of dengue fever on Madeira island is waning after infecting 2,000 people in Europe's first sustained transmission since the 1920s, Portugal's health secretary Fernando Leal da Costa said on Monday. Full story
With over 40 percent of the world's population at risk from dengue fever, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), scientists are embracing a novel way of preventing the infection that sickens 50 million-100 million people every year. Full story
Miriam Torres, 28, veiled by a mosquito net recovers from dengue fever at the Hospital General Barrio Obrero, in Asuncion, Paraguay, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Paraguay health officials said Thursday that the proliferation of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits dengue, has led to the death of
The hand of a child, who has been put on drip after showing symptoms of dengue fever, is seen in the pediatric emergency room of a public hospital in Santo Domingo August 13, 2010. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
A woman holds a sign which reads, "No mosquitoes no dengue fever" during a dengue prevention campaign in Lima, January 16, 2013, in which Peru's first lady Nadine Heredia participated. The disease caused 41 deaths in 2012, according to the Ministry of Health. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo (PERU - Tags: HEALT
Paraguayan soldiers collect discarded tyres to prevent mosquitoes breeding at the start of a campaign combating the spread of dengue fever, in Villa Elisa city near Asuncion January 9, 2013. REUTERS/Jorge Adorno
A worker fumigates tombs as a preemptive measure against dengue fever, so as to protect the influx of visitors coming to the cemetry, in Malabon cemetery, north of Manila October 31, 2012. Millions of Filipinos will flock to cemeteries all over the country to offer prayers for their departed loved o
