Dengue is caused by four distinct but closely related dengue viruses: dengue virus 1, 2, 3 and 4. It is spread to people through the bite of an infected mosquito.

Dengue virus, often referred to as dengue fever or "break-bone fever," due to pain being one of the major symptoms, is spread to humans through the bite of an infected mosquito.

But Dengue has proteins of its own. One of them, NS3, is known to antagonize interferons, but until recently we didn't know how. This week's Nature describes how, even though we have a protein in ...