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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 six months.
Queensland 2009 dengue outbreak 2009 Queensland, Australia Dengue fever: 1+ (503 cases) [262] 2009–2010 West African meningitis outbreak: 2009–2010 West Africa: Meningitis: 1,100 [263] 2009 swine flu pandemic: 2009–2010 Worldwide Influenza A virus subtype H1N1: Lab confirmed deaths: 18,449 (reported to the WHO) [264]
The earliest descriptions of a dengue outbreak date from 1779; its viral cause and spread were understood by the early 20th century. [15] Already endemic in more than one hundred countries, dengue is spreading from tropical and subtropical regions to the Iberian Peninsula and the southern states of the US, partly attributed to climate change.
Amid the worst outbreak in Bangladesh’s history, dengue cases were reported in all 64 of the country’s districts, and by mid-November the disease had infected 291,832 people and killed 1,476.
Outbreaks have ravaged Southeast Asia this year, infecting hundreds of thousands of people and killing hundreds as governments struggle to contain the untreatable virus. Why dengue is so ...
2017 dengue outbreak in Sri Lanka This page was last edited on 30 May 2023, at 17:24 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Latin America is experiencing its worst dengue fever outbreak on record. Case numbers in the first 4 ½ months of 2024 are already 238% higher than they were by this time last year, which itself ...
PAHO data shows that last year topped a previous 2019 record for dengue cases in the Americas, with some 4.2 million cases and 2,050 deaths. ... dengue outbreaks typically occur three to five ...