DHAKA (Bernama): Researchers in Bangladesh claimed on Sunday (Aug 30) to have found a new variant of the dengue virus that is more infectious and deadly as the country grapples with a surge in dengue cases.
The Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) discovered the variant, Dengue Virus Type 3 (DENV-3), during genome sequencing at its lab in the capital Dhaka in an effort to find the cause behind the rapid spread of the mosquito-borne disease following the country’s largest dengue outbreak in 2019.
