By GreenMedInfo Research Group As summer temperatures soar in the Sunshine State, so too does the risk of mosquito-borne illness. Florida health officials recently confirmed a locally-acquired case of dengue fever in Hillsborough County, serving as a stark reminder that this tropical disease is no…
By Jake Johnson Environmentalists and Florida residents voiced concern and outrage Monday as state government officials and the biotechnology giant Oxitec announced plans to move ahead this week with a pilot project that involves releasing up to a billion genetically engineered mosquitoes in Monroe County over a…
By Laraine C. Abbey-Katzev, RN (emeritus), MS, CNS I am a retired nurse-nutritionist and I live in the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire a good part of the year. Dengue fever is not uncommon on Bonaire and one of my friends developed a severe case…
By Jon Rappoport The old question about a tree falling in the forest is relevant here. Does the tree make a sound if no one is there to hear it? If a scandal erupts and the press doesn’t cover it, is it a scandal? If…
By Catherine J. Frompovich How ironic, but non-other than The New York Times reported the unfortunate health complications from Sanofi’s dengue fever vaccine Dengvaxia® that have occurred in children vaccinated with it in the Philippines, a nation-state which experiences various serotypes of dengue, of which there…
