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WHO fact sheet dengue and severe dengue provides key facts, definition, provides information on global burden, transmission, characteristics, treatment, prevention and control and WHO response.

The continued spread of insecticide resistance in mosquito vectors of malaria and arboviral diseases may lead to operational failure of insecticide-based interventions if resistance is not monitored and managed efficiently. This study aimed to develop and validate a new WHO glass bottle bioassay method as an alternative to the WHO standard insecticide tube test to monitor mosquito susceptibility to new public health insecticides with particular modes of action, physical properties or both. A mul...

Shifting our focus to integrated and locally adapted vector control can save both money and lives

Manual for Surveillance and Control of Aedes Vectors in the Pacific Format SPC and WHO launch manual on surveillance and control of Aedes mosquitoes’ vectors in the Pacific The Pacific Community (SPC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a manual for surveillance and control of Aedes mosquitoes’ vectors in the Pacific during a virtual meeting today. Mosquitoes of the Aedes genus can transmit viruses that cause dengue, Zika and chikungunya disease. Three diseases that have taken ...