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Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne ... in the US was identified in California. [78] The disease infects all races, sexes, and ages equally. ... The first historical ...
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 recognized dengue epidemics occurred almost simultaneously in Asia, Africa, and North America in the 1780s, shortly after the identification and naming of the disease in 1779. A pandemic began in Southeast Asia in the 1950s, and by 1975 dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) had become a leading cause of death among children in the region.
With the news of the first U.S. case of Polio in over a decade, comes the news of the first case of Dengue or, Dengue Fever in Florida.
Dengue fever: Dengue virus: primates mosquito bite (primarily by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus) The earliest detailed descriptions of dengue-like illness appeared in medical records from 1779 to 1780, but has had a significant re-emergence in recent years (see for example 2019–20 dengue fever epidemic). Dirofilariasis: Dirofilaria spp.
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 ...
23% in 1967 when it was first identified and 90% in 2004-2005 when the worst outbreak of the disease occurred. ... Dengue haemorrhagic fever is also known as severe ...
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 ...