Unlike common viral fevers, dengue can cause more severe illness. “Dengue virus directly suppresses bone marrow, reducing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amid the outbreak of dengue fever currently sweeping Jamaica, health experts are warning about the dangers of the mosquito-borne illness. Jamaica’s Ministry of Health & Wellness announced the outbreak ...

LONDON (AP) — Results from an early test of a dengue vaccine suggest it isn’t ideal, but scientists say the study is still encouraging news in the global fight against the disease known as “break-bone ...

When 22-year-old Ifeoma Adindu, a final-year Biology Education student at a university in the South-East, developed a high fever, body aches and a rash in late June, her family assumed it was malaria ...