Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction novel Dengue Boy

Brazil faces threat of historic dengue outbreak in 2025

Brazil faces a potentially historic dengue outbreak due to government negligence, the reintroduction of serotype 3, and climate change, exacerbating the public health crisis.

Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction novel Dengue Boy

In this passage from Dengue Boy, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we get an insight into life for Michel Nieva’s mosquito protagonist – and the drowned future world she inhabits

The government of São Paulo is about to launch a pilot project aimed at combating the proliferation of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, a vector of diseases such as dengue and chikungunya. This project, which will be tested in four cities in the state in the first half of 2025, involves the use of an application developed in partnership with the non-governmental organization The Human Project. The cities chosen for the test are São Bernardo do Campo,…

A total of 208 children under the age of 5 have been affected by dengue fever in the department of Córdoba, according to the latest epidemiological report published by the Ministry of Health Development. This figure represents almost 10% of the total of 2,110 cases recorded up to week 8 of this year, showing the high vulnerability of the child population to this disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. The proliferation of dengue has i…

Researchers at the National Telecommunications Institute (Inatel) in Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais, have developed a smart trap for capturing and monitoring female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which transmit dengue, yellow fever, Zika, and chikungunya viruses. The prototype of the device, produced through a project supported by FAPESP under a cooperation agreement with the Ministries of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MCTI) and Communica…

The Municipality of General Pueyrredon reported this Wednesday that, for the first time, the presence of the aedes aegypti, the mosquito vector of dengue, was detected in Mar del Plata. It should be clarified that this finding does not imply the presence of indigenous cases. Without further details on its location, through the Municipal Urban Services Agency (Emsur), the authorities revealed that in the framework of routine control operations th…