Why the WHO's Dengue Strategy Is Wrong
As of this very minute, the World Health Organization still officially declares that there is no cure for dengue. Unfortunately, also at this very minute, solutions like ADSX are proving the WHO wrong. Let us be sarcastic on this one: If we can kill the human body that hosts the dengue virus, why does the WHO insist that we cannot kill the dengue virus? Why is the WHO's dengue strategy defective? The WHO's dengue strategy is defective because its allocation of financial resources, its direction of medical research, and its perspective of the properties the eventual cure for dengue are evidently skewed in a particular direction that ostentatiously reflects bias, stereotypes of opinion rather than pure scientific evidence. 1. Bias for an anti-dengue vaccine. In terms of financial resources allocation, a huge chunk of WHO's budget is allocated to laboratory facilities, equipment, personnel and research effort dedicated to experiments in developing an anti-dengue vac...