The CDC announced a new diagnostic test to detect dengue virus in people with symptoms of dengue fever or dengue hemorrhagic fever. The test, called the CDC DENV-1-4 Real Time RT PCR Assay, has been ...

Laboratory tests at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) have confirmed an outbreak of dengue fever and kala-azar (black fever) diseases in Tiaty sub-county. Kenya Red Cross Society county ...

Roche Holdings AG received CE mark approval for its Elecsys Dengue Ag test, a fully automated, high-throughput immunoassay to help diagnose acute dengue virus infections. With cases of dengue on the ...

Researchers at the University of Queensland (UQ) have developed a new vaccine candidate for dengue virus, a notoriously tricky pathogen to deal with. The new candidate has a number of advantages over ...

This year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported nearly 3,000 dengue fever cases in the US, a significant increase compared to previous years. These record numbers of dengue fever ...

A novel disease prevention strategy — targeting a mosquito that spreads the dengue virus — significantly reduces both the mosquito numbers and cases of disease across a community, finds a major new ...

Editor’s note: The headline has been updated to clarify the area where dengue fever cases have risen. (NEXSTAR/AP) — U.S. health officials on Tuesday warned doctors to be alert for dengue cases as the ...

KARACHI: Over 4,000 cases of dengue fever have been reported this month, with a death in Hyderabad in the last 24 hours, raising the tally to 21 in more than a month, the health department reported on ...