Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. A New Approach to Monitoring Dengue Activity  Among the world's most vexing emerging infectious diseases, dengue continues to spread, and in its many endemic areas is a major public health problem [1] [2] [3] . There is no vaccine available, and the immunology of dengue, whereby immunological ''priming'' can result in extremely severe manifestations (e.g., dengue hemorrhagic fever) complicates vaccine development [4] . Thus dengue control is dependent on controlling the mosquito vector, and resistance to insecticides, environmental and social disruption, climate change, and global movement of goods and people (and incidentally, vectors) provide ongoing hurdles to effective vector control [5, 6] .