Call it a triple win for fighting the AIDS epidemic: Treating people with HIV early keeps them healthy, cuts their chances of infecting others, and now research shows it is also a good financial investment.
First, the good news: The number of patients diagnosed with dengue since January is 33.5 percent lower compared to the same period last year. Even the number of those who died from the most common mosquito-borne viral disease in humans is also 50 percent lower. The bad news? “Well, 45,333 is 45,333 (as of Aug. [...]
Dengue fever, a debilitating mosquito-borne disease that infected close to 124,000 Filipinos in 2010 alone, may soon become a thing of the past. This is because if all goes well in the final test being done here in the Philippines, the world will finally have its first effective vaccine against dengue no later than 2014. [...]
