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  2. Dengvaxia controversy - Wikipedia

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    President Benigno Aquino III at the launching of the dengue vaccine school-based immunization program. In April 2016, the DOH launched the dengue vaccination campaign in Central Luzon, Calabarzon and Metro Manila, where about 700,000 individuals received at least one dose of the vaccine. [11] The government paid P3.5-billion for the vaccine. [10]

  3. Dengue fever - Wikipedia

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    Mild cases of dengue fever can easily be confused with several common diseases including Influenza, measles, chikungunya, and zika. [61] [62] Dengue, chikungunya and zika share the same mode of transmission (Aedes mosquitoes) and are often endemic in the same regions, so that it is possible to be infected simultaneously by more than one disease ...

  4. Dengue fever outbreaks - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. 2019–2020 dengue fever epidemic - Wikipedia

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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]

  6. Fe del Mundo - Wikipedia

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    In the 1950s, she pursued studies on dengue fever, a common malady in the Philippines, of which little was known at the time. [17] Her clinical observations on dengue, and the findings of research she later undertook on the disease are said to "have led to a fuller understanding of dengue fever as it afflicts the young". [15]

  7. Dengue vaccine - Wikipedia

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    Dengue vaccine is a vaccine used to prevent dengue fever in humans. [9] Development of dengue vaccines began in the 1920s but was hindered by the need to create immunity against all four dengue serotypes. [10] As of 2023, there are two commercially available vaccines, sold under the brand names Dengvaxia and Qdenga. [11] [12]

  8. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    2008 Philippines dengue epidemic 2008 Philippines: Dengue fever: 172 [258] 2008 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak: 2008–2009 Zimbabwe: Cholera: 4,293 [259] 2009 Bolivian dengue fever epidemic: 2009 Bolivia: Dengue fever: 18 [260] 2009 Gujarat hepatitis outbreak: 2009 India Hepatitis B: 49 [261] Queensland 2009 dengue outbreak 2009 Queensland ...

  9. Dengue virus - Wikipedia

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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]