It feels like your bones are splintering.
Dengue, also known as break-bone fever, is an illness prevalent in areas of the world with blistering temperatures and juicy humidity. In severe cases, the viral infection causes death. The best treatment is not to catch it in the first place; the second-best is to try to prevent its spread.
Now, researchers from the UF College of Veterinary Medicine and UF College of Public Health and Health Professions plan to use a $3.5-million grant to do just that — for dengue fever, yellow fever and other arboviruses, a class of diseases spread by arthropods like flies and ticks. This is the first grant funded by the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium that the University of Florida has received and will support researchers in their goal of developing diagnostics to ultimately detect and survey for new, emerging infectious agents in Florida.
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