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    In recent years, dengue has become the leading arboviral disease transmitted worldwide, with an estimated 2.5 billion people at risk of suffering from this type of fever. It is a fatal disease, which can lead to even more deadly situations, such as dengue hemorrhagic shock. According to the NHS website, there is no cure, antiviral treatment or vaccine for the disease. However, in recent years, entomologists have been working on how to minimize this problem, in order to help reduce the increasing number of people suffering from fever. In this report, I will summarize and discuss the recent solutions or diagnostics made by scientists to solve the problem. (3, 14) Dengue is a broken fever caused by a mosquito bite infected with the dengue virus (human virus). The mosquito contracts the virus after biting an infected person, it is then affected and each time it bites someone, the virus spreads. The type of mosquito carrying this virus is called Aedes Aegypti and is similar to other mosquitoes. There is another type of mosquito that also causes this disease, the aedes albopictus. This type of mosquito is different from the Aedes aegypti because it has wolbachia. Aedes aegypti is the main mosquito known to cause dengue and produces four related viruses, including DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, and DEN-4; all of these are capable of causing fever and making it more difficult to find treatment or a cure. Due to its rapid growth, it has become the fastest growing mosquito-borne disease in the world, threatening a third of the population. Mainly tropical and subtropical regions of the world, such as the Caribbean, Central and South America,...... middle of paper ......in emerging markets, finding the solution to dengue is at the top of their list currently being developed. (3) Professor Donald Shepard of Brandeis University, who studied dengue fever while at the Schneider Institutes for Health Policy, explained in his opinion that aedes aegytpi mosquitoes cannot fly very well. far away and that highly populated areas can therefore be good places of transmission. Additionally, poor areas without reliable water and sewage systems are at risk of infection by Aedes aegytpi mosquitoes due to their good breeding grounds. (2) 2.5 billion people living in countries like Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands, Latin America, Caribbean Islands and parts of Africa have faced serious problems linked to dengue. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that around 50 to 100 million people are affected by this disease worldwide... (3)