Dengue fever may spread in Britain if a risky medical experiment goes wrong, experts have warned. Researchers want to deliberately give people dengue fever - usually restricted to tropical areas of the world - to explore how the disease infects people, according to MailOnline.
Known as a ‘Controlled Human Infection Model’, these experiments are vital in the future production of vaccines. Dengue - sometimes known as ‘breakbone fever’ - can be a brutal disease, causing fevers up to 40 degrees along with intense body pain and nausea.
It infects approximately 400 million people each year and kills 40,000 - it’s expected that dengue will become increasingly established in the UK over the next decades, due to climate change.
