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Archive Home > 2008 > November > 10 > The dengue war: hunting for a vaccine

The dengue war: hunting for a vaccine

The disease is centuries old, but it has become more potent in the past 50 years

By Thomas Fuller / The Bulletin
November 10, 2008

BANGKOK, Thailand — There was little that doctors could do for a 3-year-old boy brought to Bangkok’s main children’s hospital two weeks ago with dengue fever. Like thousands before him, he had reached the most dangerous phase of the disease, dengue shock syndrome,....

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