Dengue fever is not a new disease. Coincidentally, the disease was first reported in Batavia, Indonesia and Cairo, Egypt in 1779. Two hundred years have since passed and an effective vaccine has yet to be found to fight the disease.

The virus that causes the dengue was identified only in 1944 by a Polish-born American scientist named Albert Sabin. Sabin successfully isolated the virus which he classified into the family Flavivirdae that lives