Dengue and other viruses in Africa

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This is a fascinating paper I came across, measuring the seropositivity for Flaviviridae, Togaviridae and Bunyaviridae in Cameroon.  It might be that I really want to go back to Africa, but I found the study full of leads for future research.  For example, they discover one village where the % of seropositive adults to DENV-2 is 58%!  What is going on with that?  Shadow of malaria?  Less virulent strains of viruses?  Yellow Fever virus is also very high in these villages, as is Chikungunya virus.

This is one reason I would love to get some researchers in malaria and other diseases as contributors to the site, other wise I will be entirely too virus focused. 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16760524?ordinalpos=4&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

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