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Dengue treatment advances in animal trials

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Specific treatment for Dengue has the same roadblock as the vaccines tried against it, making sure that recovering from one serotype will not increase the risk against the others, in a way this is because Dengue is four (five according to some reports) different infections that are treated as one for convenience.

Climate change is only going to increase the risk of the disease, which means that many places that have no cases or only very small numbers will become regions where every year epidemics happen. The advantage for the mosquito vector from a small increase of the temperature during winter can snowball into a huge outbreak for which places like Tokyo are completely unprepared.

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