Tagged dengue

Scare over dengue vaccine sparks drop in overall vaccination rates in the Phillipines

West Side Story

Feb 4, 2018

Health, Science

Following a scare in the Philippines over the world’s first vaccine to prevent dengue fever, vaccination rates in the nation for some preventable diseases have dropped to as low as 60 percent in recent years, a...

Scientists get closer to universal vaccine for dengue

Dec 17, 2014

Forget about malaria, here is dengue, a complex virus that infects millions of people worldwide yet there is no approved or universal vaccine for it. The reference to a universal vaccine is that there exist cer...