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Dengue fever cases have surged in the Americas this year, says health agency
- neves 7y agoMaybe now there will some more money spent in dengue research, and we in the poor countries will get a cure for it.
- SubiculumCode 7y agoAfriend contracted a dengue like fever from Budapest. I thought he was going to die, and his joint pain was unbelievable...in every joint.
- _opiu 7y agoVery true in Nicaragua, and not only a surge in cases, this year strand seems to be a really bad one, it lowers the platelets to very low levels, causing internal bleeding, while the body is dumping all the iron trying to fight the infection.
- ryannevius 7y agoI lived in Thailand for the past year and was unlucky enough to get dengue after only a month there, despite liberal application of mosquito spray and keeping them out of the house. I wouldn't wish dengue on anyone. It's a huge problem in Southeast Asia, and the tactics employed to eliminate the problem are often not helpful in the long-term (e.g. random spraying of insecticide in residential areas).
- rdl 7y agoI'm hoping to be in a position to fund a pirate gene drive extermination of mosquito subspecies in 2020/2021, if someone else hasn't done it before then. i.e. do all the development and then implement the solution without "permission" because fuck waiting around for 5-10 years of pointless debate.
- whenanother 7y agoprobably due to all the insecticide used in agriculture killing off the natural predators of mosquitoes. but i am sure the wealthy are rubbing their hands in thinking of the number of their companies that can profit from this.