{"id":5908,"date":"2024-02-20T07:22:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T13:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5908"},"modified":"2024-02-20T07:22:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T13:22:53","slug":"brazil-is-waging-a-war-against-rising-dengue-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/02\/20\/brazil-is-waging-a-war-against-rising-dengue-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Is Waging a War Against Rising Dengue Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2024-02-20\/dengue-fever-brazil-struggles-to-get-enough-of-the-qdenga-vaccine?srnd=prognosis\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Can a vaccine slow dengue in Brazil?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year in Brazil, our health regulatory agency approved the Qdenga\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ema.europa.eu\/en\/medicines\/human\/EPAR\/qdenga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vaccine<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0dengue fever. The news excited me \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/dengue-and-severe-dengue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dengue<\/a>\u00a0is a painful, common mosquito-borne illness that has no specific treatment and in severe cases can even be fatal. It\u2019s found in tropical and subtropical climates like Brazil, where cases are currently raging. But making a vaccine has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC10228381\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">difficult<\/a>. The previous vaccine available here, Dengvaxia, is only available to people who have already had a dengue infection. That group didn\u2019t include me.<br><br>I took my first dose of Qdenga, which is made by Japan\u2019s Takeda Pharmaceuticals, in July. I returned in November for a booster \u2014 you need two doses to complete the immunization. I was lucky to get it early. Takeda is currently unable to manufacture enough doses to immunize most of Brazil\u2019s population of more than 200 million people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2024-02-20\/dengue-fever-brazil-struggles-to-get-enough-of-the-qdenga-vaccine?srnd=prognosis\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg Can a vaccine slow dengue in Brazil? Last year in Brazil, our health regulatory agency approved the Qdenga\u00a0vaccine\u00a0for\u00a0dengue fever. The news excited me \u2014\u00a0dengue\u00a0is a painful, common mosquito-borne illness that has no specific treatment and in severe cases can even be fatal. It\u2019s found in tropical and subtropical climates like Brazil, where cases are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5909,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions\/5909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}