Research Progress in Fight against Dengue Fever
New Understanding of Dengue Virus Points Way to Possible Therapies for Dengue Fever NIH News ~ April 22, 2009
Doctors have no specific drugs to treat dengue fever, a viral illness spread by mosquitoes that sickens 50 million to 100 million people and causes 20,000 deaths worldwide each year. Researchers have identified the cellular components in mosquitoes and in humans that dengue virus uses to multiply inside these hosts after infecting them. Scientists are hopeful that these findings could lead to the development of anti-dengue drugs.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, funded the research, which was led by Mariano Garcia-Blanco MD PhD, of Duke University Medical Center. The research appears in the current issue of the journal Nature. Click for further information on NIAID research efforts on dengue fever.
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