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Dengue fever racing around the world: WHO
Published on Wednesday January 16, 2013
Jennifer Yang
Global Health Reporter
Dengue fever is now the fastest spreading insect-borne virus in the world and has reached ?epidemic potential,? the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
Indeed, Dr. Scott Halstead, a leading dengue expert who has studied the virus for more than 50 years, goes even further: he believes the pandemic has already arrived.
?We?re in it. We?re in the pandemic,? said Halstead, a senior scientific adviser to the Dengue Vaccine Initiative. ?We have more dengue in more countries, and in more places and involving more people, than any other time in history. It?s reached a huge geographic expanse and now we?re stuck with it...?
Dengue fever racing around the world: WHO
Published on Wednesday January 16, 2013
Jennifer Yang
Global Health Reporter
Dengue fever is now the fastest spreading insect-borne virus in the world and has reached ?epidemic potential,? the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
Indeed, Dr. Scott Halstead, a leading dengue expert who has studied the virus for more than 50 years, goes even further: he believes the pandemic has already arrived.
?We?re in it. We?re in the pandemic,? said Halstead, a senior scientific adviser to the Dengue Vaccine Initiative. ?We have more dengue in more countries, and in more places and involving more people, than any other time in history. It?s reached a huge geographic expanse and now we?re stuck with it...?