A dramatic rise in the number of dengue hemorrhagic fever cases has led the Philippines Department of Health to issue a national warning against the disease.

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The Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University has begun human clinical testing for a dengue fever vaccine.

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Thailand's health minister recently announced that more than 50,000 citizens have been infected with dengue fever so far this year, resulting in 63 deaths.

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Florida health officials this week confirmed the first case of dengue fever has been reported in Broward County.

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Human clinical trials have begun on a tetravalent vaccine candidate to protect against the mosquito-borne dengue virus.

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Officials with the Florida Department of Health have confirmed an increase in the number of cases of dengue fever in the Key West area.

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An epidemic of dengue fever that has hit Latin America and the Caribbean has increased the risk of a similar outbreak occurring in South Florida, an expert on the disease has told Reuters.

Trinidad has announced its third fatality from the hemorrhagic form of dengue fever, health officials reported on July 25.

Merck & Co. has agreed to purchase the dengue fever vaccine research unit of Hawaii Biotech.

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Health officials across the Caribbean are concerned about the near epidemic level of mosquito-borne dengue fever, saying it could get more severe as the rainy season progresses.

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Officials with the Miami-Dade Health Department this week reported the first suspected case of dengue fever in the county.

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According to government research released this week, five percent of the population of Key West, Florida, has been infected at some point with the dengue virus.

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Puerto Rico’s health secretary issued a warning on July 5 that the island could potentially face its worst outbreak of dengue fever if action is not taken immediately.

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Approximately 11,000 people in Honduras have been infected with dengue and at least 10 have died, leading the nation's authorities to announce a nationwide red alert.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday that the number of dengue fever in U.S. travelers returning home has risen drastically in the past few years.

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There are no approved vaccines for the prevention of Dengue virus, but that could change, according to NanoVircides, Inc.

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After a 65-year absence, dengue fever has returned to the United States, according to a report by newscientist.com.

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Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc., and Hawaii Biotech, Inc., announced on May 25 that they will be joining forces with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for preclinical development of a dengue vaccine.

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The Fort Collins Coloradoan reports that a biotech company located in Fort Collins, Colo., is beginning its first clinical trials of a vaccine for dengue fever.

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World Health Officials announced last week that outbreaks of dengue fever have risen in the Asia Pacific region in the past year, killing three times more victims in 2008 than in recent years.

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Health officials in Latin America report an earlier than usual outbreak of potentially deadly dengue fever, and are bracing this year for a particularly virulent outbreak of the mosquito-borne tropical disease, Agence France Presse reported March 24.

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Health officials in Puerto Rico have declared an epidemic of dengue fever, The Associated Press reported.

WASHINGTON — Genetically altered mosquitoes that cannot fly may help slow the spread of dengue fever and could be a harmless alternative to chemical insecticides, U.S. and British scientists said Feb. 22.

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An immunology research institute has validated the long-held and controversial hypothesis that antibodies — usually the "good guys" in the body's fight against viruses — instead contribute to severe dengue virus-induced disease.

SANTIAGO, Chile — Dengue cases in Central and Latin America have increased almost five-fold in incidence in the last 30 years, researchers have found.

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Sanofi-Aventis’ experimental vaccine against dengue protected healthy volunteers against all four strains, bringing the drugmaker closer to providing the first vaccine against a disease that threatens 40 percent of the world’s population.

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HONOLULU — Hawaii Biotech Inc. announced Jan. 7 that it has completed recruitment and dosing in a multiple dose Phase 1 clinical study of its dengue virus monovalent vaccine.

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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia has seen a rise in reported cases of dengue fever and malaria in 2009, local media reported Jan. 5, citing health officials here.

Australian health authorities are fighting dengue fever on two fronts and are fearful that hot summer weather will intensify the chances of more outbreaks, The Courier-Mail reported Dec. 18.

SAN DIEGO — Researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology will take aim at several of the world's most dangerous infectious diseases — tuberculosis, malaria and dengue virus.

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MEXICO CITY — Sanofi Pasteur announced Dec. 9 that it is expanding its dengue vaccine clinical program in Latin America with a new multicenter study in children and adolescents in Mexico, Colombia, Honduras and Puerto Rico.

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NEW DELHI -- Twenty five new dengue cases were recorded in Delhi on Friday, taking the number of people affected by the vector-borne disease to 489, health officials told The Times of India on Nov. 6.