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Most people recover within a week or so. In about 5% of cases, symptoms worsen and can become life-threatening. This is called severe dengue (formerly called dengue hemorrhagic fever or dengue shock syndrome). [21] [23] Severe dengue can lead to shock, internal bleeding, organ failure and even death. [24]
Nearly 200 people in New York and New Jersey — all of whom reported traveling recently — have contracted dengue fever, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...
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, Australia Dengue fever: 1+ (503 cases) [262]
Similarly, about one in four people who contract dengue develop symptoms lasting two to seven days, but symptoms are usually mild and may include fever, rash, nausea, vomiting, muscle pain, joint ...
Schematic depiction of the symptoms of dengue fever. Typically, people infected with dengue virus are asymptomatic (80%) or have only mild symptoms such as an uncomplicated fever. [7] [13] [14] Others have more severe illness (5%), and in a small proportion it is life-threatening.
The disease, for which there is no treatment or vaccine, usually lasts four to seven days. Although the disease was eliminated in Florida decades ago, it has recurred in cases of people traveling ...
As of 2010, dengue fever is believed to infect 50 to 100 million people worldwide a year with 1/2 million life-threatening infections. [1] It dramatically increased in frequency between 1960 and 2010, by 30 fold. [ 2 ]
Latin America is experiencing its worst dengue fever outbreak on record. Case numbers in the first 4 ½ months of 2024 are already 238% higher than they were by this time last year, which itself ...