Dengue fever cases have surged in the Americas this year, says health agency

I lived in Thailand for the past year and was unlucky enough to get dengue after only a month there, despite liberal application of mosquito spray and keeping them out of the house. I wouldn't wish dengue on anyone.

It's a huge problem in Southeast Asia, and the tactics employed to eliminate the problem are often not helpful in the long-term (e.g. random spraying of insecticide in residential areas).

I'm hoping to be in a position to fund a pirate gene drive extermination of mosquito subspecies in 2020/2021, if someone else hasn't done it before then. i.e. do all the development and then implement the solution without "permission" because fuck waiting around for 5-10 years of pointless debate.

Very true in Nicaragua, and not only a surge in cases, this year strand seems to be a really bad one, it lowers the platelets to very low levels, causing internal bleeding, while the body is dumping all the iron trying to fight the infection.

Maybe now there will some more money spent in dengue research, and we in the poor countries will get a cure for it.

Afriend contracted a dengue like fever from Budapest. I thought he was going to die, and his joint pain was unbelievable...in every joint.

probably due to all the insecticide used in agriculture killing off the natural predators of mosquitoes. but i am sure the wealthy are rubbing their hands in thinking of the number of their companies that can profit from this.