Synthetic And Natural Medicines To Combat Dengue Virus

Abstract

Dengue virus (DENV) infection starts through female anopheles mosquito vector. This virus belongs to flaviviridae family. If a carrier mosquito (Aedes gypti) attacks a human, the virus is transmitted. There are four serotypes such as DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3, and DENV-4 of the virus. The infection affects the 50-100 million people worldwide. No specific dengue antiviral medicament has been produced yet to combat dengue; The only Dengvaxia vaccine was authorized to fight DENV.  It has recently become a global health worry and threat. After 2-3 weeks of infection, severe signs such as an elevated fever, nausea, pain in the body, inflammation of the skin, discomfort, and head motion occur. The present review updates the synthetic and natural medicines which can control the dengue fever.