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2 days ago · It is a leading cause of serious illness and death in about 120 Latin American and Asian countries. About 80 percent of infections are mild . But severe cases of dengue can lead to internal ...
5 days ago · dengue, acute infectious mosquito-borne fever that is temporarily incapacitating but rarely fatal. Besides fever, the disease is characterized by an extreme pain in and stiffness of the joints (hence the name “breakbone fever”). Complication of dengue fever can give rise to a more severe form, called dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), which is ...
6 days ago · WHO estimates that there are more than 100 to 400 million cases of dengue each year. Last week, the agency's regional office in the Americas said that there were 6.7 million cases of dengue ...
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4 days ago · Update: May 16, 2024 14:00 PM (GMT-5)Between epidemiological weeks (EW) 1 and 17 of 2024, a total of 7,327,521 suspected cases of dengue were reported, resulting in a cumulative incidence of 776 per 100,000 population. This figure represents an increase of 243% compared to the same period in 2023 and 445% compared to the average of the last 5 years. Figure 1 shows the trend of suspected dengue ...
2 days ago · It is a leading cause of serious illness and death in about 120 Latin American and Asian countries. About 80 percent of infections are mild. But severe cases of dengue can lead to internal bleeding, organ failure, and death. Last week, the WHO reported there were 6.7 million suspected cases of dengue in the Americas.
18 hours ago · It is a leading cause of serious illness and death in about 120 Latin American and Asian countries. About 80 percent of infections are mild. But severe cases of dengue can lead to internal bleeding, organ failure, and death. Last week, the WHO reported there were 6.7 million suspected cases of dengue in the Americas.
