Mosquito Reduction May Not Reduce Incidence Of Dengue

A new study published in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases finds a paradoxical relationship between dengue hemorrhagic fever and the mosquitoes that carry the virus. The surprising result, wrote the researchers from Thailand, Japan, and the UK, was that as the density of the Aedes mosquitoes decreased, there was an increase in the incidence of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF).

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Filed under: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses on July 16th, 2008