As well as the Higgs Prize and a number of other initiatives, this week the government will be announcing the appointment of 33 new health fellows to conduct research into medical challenges such as treating motor neurone disease, how to use technology to help people with diabetes and how to control internal bleeding.
The severe form of the disease, dengue haemorrhagic fever, involves a high temperature, head and muscle aches, internal bleeding and, at worst, circulatory failure.