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Month: June 2018

Tracking Unseen Dengue

Researcher: Derek Cummings, 410-916-1371 PIO: Rachel Wayne, 352-872-2620   For many viruses, contracting the pathogen can have a silver lining: the subsequent antibodies confer immunity against future infection. Not so for dengue, a remarkably common and occasionally fatal mosquito-borne disease that affects between 50 and 390 million people per year. Because it is often asymptomatic, […]