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Dengue is a viral infection transmitted by mosquitoes caused by four types of dengue virus (DENV 1, DENV 2, DENV 3, DENV 4). Infection with one serotype provides long-term immunity to the homologous serotype, but not to other serotypes; sequential infections put people at greater risk of severe dengue.
Oct 5, 2022 · Treatment. No specific treatment for dengue fever exists. While recovering from dengue fever, drink plenty of fluids. Call your doctor right away if you have any of the following signs and symptoms of dehydration: The over-the-counter (OTC) drug acetaminophen (Tylenol, others) can help reduce muscle pain and fever.
Dengue is the most rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral disease in the world. In the last 50 years, incidence has increased 30-fold with increasing geographic expansion to new countries and, in the present decade, from urban to rural settings (Figure 1.1). An estimated 50 million dengue infections occur annually (Figure 1.2) and approximately 2.5 billion people live in dengue endemic ...
Dengue fever and dengue haemorrhagic fever are important arthropod-borne viral diseases. Each year, there are ∼50 million dengue infections and ∼500,000 individuals are hospitalized with ...
What you need to know. Dengue is: A virus spread through mosquito bites. Aedes mosquitoes also spread chikungunya and Zika viruses. A risk to anyone traveling to a tropical or subtropical region of the world where dengue virus is found. Global risk. Each year, an estimated 390 million people are infected. Outbreaks have occurred in parts of ...
Jul 12, 2023 · Almost half of the world’s population, about 4 billion people, live in areas with a risk of dengue. Dengue is often a leading cause of illness in areas with risk. Dengue has emerged as a worldwide problem since the 1960s. The disease is common in many popular tourist destinations in the Caribbean (including Puerto Rico), Central and South ...
Laboratory confirmation of dengue virus infection is important. Although in practice diagnosis is often made by clinical signs and symptoms only, dengue in its febrile phase cannot be clinically differentiated from other vector-borne viral and parasitic diseases, such as malaria, chikungunya and Zika fever.
