Kill or Cure - Deadly Dengue Fever - Trailer
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne infection, which affects some 50 million people annually. It is now endemic in more than 100 countries in Africa, South America, the Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, and the Western Pacific. This program journeys to Thailand to join scientists at the forefront of the fight to contain and eliminate dengue. Viewers learn about one of the principal challenges involved: the dengue virus is made up of four different serotypes, and any vaccine must address all four to be effective. Since this has been a steep roadblock, some researchers are trying another approach: fighting the mosquito carriers directly with a naturally occurring bacteria that may lower infection rates.
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Deadly Dengue Fever is part of the multiple documentary series KILL OR CURE. All the films in this series are on the SWPictures website. Kill or Cure looks at diseases that are no threat in developed nations, but claim tens of millions of lives every year in developing countries. Modern, effective treatments targeting affluent westerners are too expensive for the world’s poor. Old drugs are cheap but resistance is spreading very fast. In some cases the only drugs available kill up to one in 10 of the patients who take them. Kill or Cure covers the hunt for effective and affordable treatments for populations earning less than a few dollars a day.