World 'facing global dendue fever pandemic'

The world is seeing an explosion in dengue infections as the virus-carrying Aedes mosquito adapts to city environments and grows immune to traditional methods of population control, a panel of experts in Singapore said today.

“It’s a global pandemic,” said Dr. Duane Gubler, director of the Asia-Pacific Institute of Tropical Diseases in Hawaii. “It’s quite clear that the disease … has evolved. There just is more dengue in the world.”