Curated Video
Deadly dengue epidemic in Honduras
On a recent afternoon, dozens of emergency workers cranked up howling fumigation machines that looked like leaf blowers and fanned out into a hillside Tegucigalpa neighbourhood.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : A laboratory offers quick tests to detect Zika disease in Brazil
CLEAN : A laboratory offers quick tests to detect Zika disease in Brazil
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Brazil worried as zika approaches Rio Sao Paulo
CLEAN : Brazil worried as zika approaches Rio Sao Paulo
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Health workers spread information about mosquitoes in Rio favela
CLEAN : Health workers spread information about mosquitoes in Rio favela
AFP News Agency
VOICED : Peru entrega condones para evitar zika por transmision sexual
VOICED : Peru entrega condones para evitar zika por transmision sexual
Curated Video
Cuban and US health experts meet in Havana
Top infectious disease specialists from the United States and Cuba met in Havana on Wednesday to open a new phase in medical cooperation after more than a half-century of isolation. Two dozen US and Cuban experts on tropical diseases...
Curated Video
Los mosquitos cultivados en laboratorio son prometedores para combatir la peligrosa fiebre del dengue
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Sky News
MALASIA: Scientists are working on a pioneering programme to tackle dengue fever
VOICED: The World Health Organisation is warning half the worlds population, is now at risk from Dengue Fever.
It's a severe viral infection, normally spread by mosquitoes, with no widely available treatment..
The disease is normally...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Mosquitoes Engineered to Kill Their Own Kind
Researchers hope to crash populations of dengue-transmitting mosquitoes, using genetic engineering. [12:19]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Biointeractive: Viral Outbreak: Dengue Fever Re Emergence in the Americas
See how far the dengue fever virus has spread throughout the Americas since the 1960s. [0:24]
California Academy of Sciences
Ca Academy of Sciences: Science Heroes: Shannon Bennett, Life Cycle of Dengue
Shannon Bennett studies the mosquito species most responsible for the spread of dengue, which is particularly good at transmitting human pathogens because it has adapted to feed efficiently on humans. [0:55]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Tropical Medicine Update
We'll check in on the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual meeting and talk about highlights from the conference.