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Goals are to increase public awareness about dengue, mobilize resources for its prevention and control and, to demonstrate the Southeast Asian region's commitment in tackling the disease. [93] Efforts are ongoing as of 2019 to make it a global event. [94] The Philippines has an awareness month in June since 1998. [95] [96]
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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]
The first edition, published in 1917 by the US Public Health Service, titled Control of Communicable Diseases. The first edition was a 30-page booklet with 38 diseases (Public Health Reports 32:41:1706-1733), adopted from a pamphlet written by Dr. Francis Curtis, health officer for Newton, Massachusetts, and sold for 5¢. [ 2 ]
For diseases where there is no effective cure, such as Zika virus, West Nile fever and Dengue fever, vector control remains the only way to protect human populations. [ citation needed ] However, even for vector-borne diseases with effective treatments the high cost of treatment remains a huge barrier to large amounts of developing world ...
In a small proportion of cases the disease develops into the life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever, resulting in hemorrhage, thrombocytopenia and blood plasma leakage, or into dengue shock syndrome, where shock occurs. Dengue is transmitted by several species of mosquito within the genus Aedes, principally A. aegypti.
While no dengue-specific treatment exists, prevention by avoiding mosquito-heavy areas and draining standing water are the most common ways to prevent and deal with the illness. [13] DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, and DEN-4 are the main observed strains of Dengue in Bangladesh with any strain giving previously infected individuals cross-immunity between ...
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 ...