<story><title>&apos;Miraculous&apos; mosquito hack cuts dengue by 77%</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57417219</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>macintux</author><text>For anyone unfamiliar with dengue, among its more notorious aspects is that repeated infections over a victim’s lifetime can make its impact &lt;i&gt;worse&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Dengue_fever&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Dengue_fever&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Very happy to hear this news. Selfishly, with a warming climate the impact of the virus is likely to spread, and generally the more tropical diseases we can wipe out the better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_af</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;For anyone unfamiliar with dengue, among its more notorious aspects is that repeated infections over a victim’s lifetime can make its impact worse.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;One really minor nitpick, but I think it&amp;#x27;s different strains of dengue that get you: get infected by one, and you get resistance for that strain, but also become more susceptible to develop complications or die from a separate strain.</text></comment>
<story><title>&apos;Miraculous&apos; mosquito hack cuts dengue by 77%</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57417219</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>macintux</author><text>For anyone unfamiliar with dengue, among its more notorious aspects is that repeated infections over a victim’s lifetime can make its impact &lt;i&gt;worse&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Dengue_fever&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Dengue_fever&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Very happy to hear this news. Selfishly, with a warming climate the impact of the virus is likely to spread, and generally the more tropical diseases we can wipe out the better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krrrh</author><text>This fact makes the stat from the article all the more alarming.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In 1970, only nine countries had faced severe dengue outbreaks, now there are up to 400 million infections a year.&lt;p&gt;It amazes me to think of how relatively small the team that worked on this was in relation to the outsized benefit to humanity.</text></comment>