American scientists have made a research breakthrough in their study on dengue, a viral disease that wreaked havoc across India in the last two years, that could help treatment of the disease at a future date. Dengue emerged as one of the biggest public health problems of India in the recent past. Data available with India's National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme show that dengue cases more than doubled between 2014 and 2015; the central agency noted 40,571 cases in 2014 that increased to 99,913 in 2015. While 137 people died in 2014, 220 died in 2015. In 2016, the increasing onslaught of dengue resulted in 1,1,880 cases and 227 deaths.

 

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