World’s First dengue vaccine is approved by the health officials in Mexico. Based on global clinical tests conducted in 15 countries involving more than 40,000 participants, the vaccine reduced hospitalization risk by 80 percent. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), dengue is the fastest growing mosquito-borne disease in the world today, causing nearly 400 million infections every year.
In the last 50 years, dengue has spread from being present in a handful of countries to being endemic in 128 countries, where about 4 billion people live, and dengue incidence has likewise increased 30-fold in this time period. The mosquito that transmits dengue feeds mainly at dawn and dusk and can breed in very small amounts of standing water, making it a formidable foe for public-health workers and endemic community residents alike. Dengue is a painful disease that is also known as…
