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Dengue Surveillance Among Children In Sri Lanka: Essential Data To Guide Policy

Published: Nov. 16, 2010, 4:45 p.m.

b'London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Audio News: \\n \\nDengue Surveillance Among Children In Sri Lanka: Essential Data To Guide Policy\\n\\nSurveillance of dengue infection among children in Sri Lanka is providing practical assistance to the global effort to combat this neglected \\u2014 but nevertheless costly and potentially fatal \\u2014 disease, according to research presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia (November 3-7, 2010). Hasitha Tissera from the Sri Lanka Ministry of Health and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discusses the progress they\\u2019ve made in understanding this mosquito-borne viral disease, and urges greater international efforts to provide a vaccine and better treatments.'