{"id":344362,"date":"2025-08-12T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=344362"},"modified":"2025-08-12T16:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:40:59","slug":"dengue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dengue\/","title":{"rendered":"Dengue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> A new study published identified <strong data-start=\"92\" data-end=\"140\">envelope dimer epitope (EDE)-like antibodies<\/strong> as a key determinant of broad, cross-serotype immunity against dengue virus (DENV).<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Dengue<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 335px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nature.com\/scitable\/content\/ne0000\/ne0000\/ne0000\/ne0000\/22400749\/F2_dengue_2_1.jpg?resize=335%2C318&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dengue Transmission \" width=\"335\" height=\"318\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Learn Science at Scitable<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Dengue is a vector borne disease caused by the dengue virus and transmitted to humans through the<strong> bite of infected <em>Aedes<\/em> mosquitoes, mainly <em>Aedes aegypti<\/em>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The dengue virus (DEN)<strong> comprises four distinct serotypes<\/strong> (DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3 and DEN-4) which belongs to the genus Flavivirus of the family Flaviviridae.<\/li>\n<li>The disease is<strong> common in tropical and subtropical regions<\/strong>, especially in urban and semi-urban areas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms:<\/strong> Mild dengue symptoms include high fever (up to 40\u00b0C), severe headache, pain behind the eyes, muscle and joint pain, rash, nausea, vomiting, and swollen glands.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transmission:<\/strong> Dengue is mainly transmitted to humans through the bite of infected female <em>Aedes aegypti<\/em> mosquitoes.\n<ul>\n<li>Rarely, transmission can occur through maternal transfer during pregnancy, blood transfusions, or organ transplants.<\/li>\n<li>Human-to-mosquito transmission can happen from two days before symptoms appear until two days after the fever resolves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Risk Factors:<\/strong> Unplanned urbanisation, dense populations, poor water storage, and inadequate waste management foster mosquito breeding, while rising temperatures and heavy rainfall from climate change aid their survival and spread.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: A new study published identified envelope dimer epitope (EDE)-like antibodies as a key determinant of broad, cross-serotype immunity against dengue virus (DENV). About Dengue Dengue is a vector borne disease caused by the dengue virus and transmitted to humans through the bite of infected Aedes mosquitoes, mainly Aedes aegypti. The dengue virus (DEN) comprises&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dengue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dengue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,12039],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-344362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}