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The 2019–2020 dengue fever epidemic was an epidemic of the infectious disease dengue fever in several countries of Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Bangladesh, [1] Pakistan, [2] India, Thailand, Singapore, and Laos. [3]
New Delhi: By early October, more than 590 cases of dengue fever were reported from Delhi and over 367 from neighbouring states who had come to New Delhi for treatment. [1] Rajasthan: By 12 September, more than 35 patients were treated for dengue fever. [2] Chandigarh: 159 cases of dengue fever were reported. These were reported from the Post ...
Most people recover within a week or so. In about 5% of cases, symptoms worsen and can become life-threatening. This is called severe dengue (formerly called dengue hemorrhagic fever or dengue shock syndrome). [21] [23] Severe dengue can lead to shock, internal bleeding, organ failure and even death. [24]
Dengue virus (DENV) is the cause of dengue fever.It is a mosquito-borne, single positive-stranded RNA virus of the family Flaviviridae; genus Flavivirus. [1] [2] Four serotypes of the virus have been found, and a reported fifth has yet to be confirmed, [3] [4] [5] all of which can cause the full spectrum of disease. [1]
Dengue fever (UK: / ˈ d ɛ ŋ ɡ eɪ / or US: / ˈ d ɛ ŋ ɡ iː /), also known as breakbone fever, is an infectious tropical disease caused by the dengue virus.Symptoms include fever, headache, myalgias and arthralgias, and a characteristic skin rash that is similar to measles.
Epidemic dengue has become more common since the 1980s. By the late 1990s, dengue was the most important mosquito-borne disease affecting humans after malaria, with around 40 million cases of dengue fever and several hundred thousand cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever each year. Significant outbreaks of dengue fever tend to occur every five or ...
In May 2016 the World Health Organization declared India free of yaws. [57] India was the first country where yaws was endemic and which eliminated it. [58] This success in India led to excite for other countries to also try to eliminate yaws by year 2020 using techniques which India developed. [59]
Over the last twenty years, there has been a geographic spread of the disease. Dengue incidence rates have risen sharply within urban areas which have recently become endemic hot spots for the disease. [61] The recent spread of Dengue can also be attributed to rapid population growth, increased coagulation in urban areas, and global travel.