Thai academic denies rumor of new dengue strain

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Academic denies rumor of new dengue strain

BANGKOK, 17 November 2015 (NNT) – An academic at Mahidol University has brushed aside claims that a new strain of dengue virus has emerged in Asia.

Dr Sutee Yoksan, Director of the Center for Vaccine Development, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Mahidol University, revealed that vaccines for all four strains of dengue have been developed in France.

The vaccines have already been tested on 30,000 human subjects and no negative reactions were detected. They are currently undergoing the registration process and are expected to be used in Thailand for the first time next year.

On the other hand, Dr Sutee denied an online report that a new strain of dengue was recently discovered in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. He pointed out that, in fact, the case was found in a monkey eight years ago and the virus was of the type that could not be transmitted to humans.


-- NNT 2015-11-17

[chainarong]

I concur with Khun Sutee, Dengue is actually the worst out of the two, the other being Malaria, Dengue do have four strains and they are active 24/7 x 365 more so in the wet or humid areas, Malaria only develops in the female at gestation time and only then for a brief period , however they cause a lot of deaths and pain in the short infectious time. Dengue is there all the time, take care.