Finally we may get a respite from the dreaded dengue in the near future! Scientists were actively trying to find a cure for dengue and now they have successfully found a link between bacterial infections and dengue. Some of the drugs can now be tried on the mosquito borne virus and a treatment discovered hopefully, say the researchers.
The researchers from a recent study have confirmed that almost 390 million people are affected by dengue world over and a whopping 25,000 succumb to death due to the deadly virus.
As China works on releasing sterile mosquitoes to combat dengue fever, the researchers of Queenland , Australia are working ardently on the available drugs to find a way out to cure the mosquito virus. Existing drugs will now be given a new purpose and they will be used to treat dengue fever, say the scientists from the University of Queensland in Australia. They have discovered that the human body shows the same reaction to
and dengue fever.
Researchers feel that in sepsis, the blood poisoning type, a trial drug they are working on may prove to be a cure, and this same drug may be useful in fighting the dengue virus in the future. Paul Young, a UQ virologist, has stated The drug blocks leaking blood vessels and were very confident that it would work effectively with dengue fever. The drug has already passed the first two clinical trials, so wed be able to leapfrog the initial work.
A debilitating fever caused by the deadly virus can lead to dengue shock syndrome or dengue hemorrhagic fever and at the moment the researchers are puzzled by dengue as they have no drug or vaccine to treat it. In the cases of sepsis, the products from bacterial cell wall lead to a septic shock in the body and in the same way the dengue fever protein acts as poison in the human body, deduce the researchers. Professor Paul Young, states that within one or two years the clinical trials for the drug may start.
