Margaret Chan

Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.

Chinese Public Servant

Pratyusha Banerjee

I quit 'Jhalak' for 'Balika Vadhu.' I suffered from dengue; I was in ICU for three days, and then I quit 'Balika Vadhu.' I needed a change and wanted to experience new things.

Indian Actress

Tamilisai Soundararajan

The Tamil Nadu government should seek the assistance of the Centre in tackling dengue situation. The efforts taken by the state government to control dengue was inadequate.

Indian Public Servant

Scott Gottlieb

From West Nile to swine flu to Ebola to the global outbreak of dengue fever, the capacity to deal with threats like Zika must be designed into our preparedness posture.

American Public Servant

Greg Grandin

In 2015, El Salvador suffered nearly 50,000 cases of dengue. Cuba had 1641 cases, no deaths, and one of the lowest incidence rates in the Americas.

American Historian

Phil Gingrey

Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.

American Politician

Dengue is transmitted by mosquitoes, so it's associated with areas where they are common.

Mosquito Spread

Dengue is more prevalent in tropical places, so it's often discussed in travel and health advisories.

Tropical Regions

Dengue refers to a serious illness, and using it shows concern for health issues in affected regions.

Health Condition

 for hundreds of years. They've sped up the development of vaccines against typhoid and cholera, and they've helped us better understand how immunity develops to things like the flu, malaria and dengue. We've even used them for other types of coronavirus before. There's been a lot of debate

How COVID-19 human...

 But it's not just that mosquitos are annoying, they're also deadly. Mosquitos can transmit everything from malaria to yellow fever to West Nile virus to dengue. Over a million people worldwide die every year from mosquito-borne diseases, and that's just people. Horses, dogs, cats,

The loathsome, lethal...

 So in a year, you could virtually eliminate malaria. In practice, we're still a few years out from being able to do that, but still, a 1,000 children a day die of malaria. In a year, that number could be almost zero. The same goes for dengue fever, chikungunya, yellow fever.

Gene editing can now...

 you could all help us track our enemies. These are enemies because they cause malaria, Zika, chikungunya, dengue. But the challenge is that we actually don't know where our enemies are. The world map for where mosquitoes are is missing. So we started thinking about this.

Lifesaving scientific...

 that can transmit the pathogens that cause more serious diseases, things like dengue, chikungunya or Zika. Let's hope it stays that way. So what does a green city look like for a mosquito? So first of all, there are trees that provide shade, protection from wind and sun

How to Design Mosquitoes...

 it doesn't affect you. But it's not one virus, it's four, and the same protection that gives you the antibodies and protects you from the same virus that you had before actually makes you much more susceptible to the other three. So the next time you get dengue fever,

Hadyn Parry: Re-engineeri...

 and other disease vectors, thus, protecting us against malaria, dengue fever, and other illnesses. Tadpoles keep waterways clean by feeding on algae, reducing the demand on our community's filtration systems and keeping our cost of water low.

Why are frogs...

 Like yellow fever or dengue, the disease caused by the Ebola virus is a severe type of hemorrhagic fever. It begins by attacking the immune system's cells and neutralizing its responses, allowing the virus to proliferate.

What we know (and don't...

 also carries dengue fever which kills about 22,000 people every year and now mosquitoes are spreading a disease called chikungunya it's already been reported in 47 states at the Centers for Disease Control they

Mosquito Death Squad PIPE...

 dengue fever for three days in a jungle alone and a week later while drug trafficker even my camp at night with automatic gun so Thailand came like as a relief crew really because it's helped