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Reported cases of dengue in the Americas nearly tripled to a record high of over 12.6 million this year, including 21,000 severe cases and over 7,700 deaths, the Pan American Health Organization ...
65,758 cases of dengue fever have been reported up to EW 19 in Mexico, accounting for 0.8% of total cases in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2024. 405 severe cases and 20 deaths have been reported so far in Mexico, with a fatality rate of 0.03%.
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 ...
An Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District worker begins the screening process for the presence of diseases like West Nile virus, Zika virus, Dengue fever or yellow fever at the agency ...
The principal risk for infection with dengue is the bite of an infected mosquito. [1] This is more probable in areas where the disease is endemic, especially where there is high population density, poor sanitation, and standing water where mosquitoes can breed. [42]
In Puerto Rico, at least 1,498 people have caught dengue from mosquitoes, prompting the local government to declare a public health emergency. And 745 U.S. travelers have been infected, the CDC notes.
Mosquitoes belonging to the Aedes family cause most of the world’s malaria, dengue, yellow fever, West Nile, and Zika. They live primarily in urban, densely populated areas and can replicate in ...
Bolivia's location within South America A TEM micrograph showing Dengue virus virions (the cluster of dark dots near the center). Dengue fever is being transmitted by mosquitoes. The 2009 Bolivian dengue fever epidemic was an epidemic of dengue fever which struck Bolivia in early 2009, escalating into a national emergency by February.