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Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease caused by dengue virus, prevalent in tropical and subtropical areas. It is frequently asymptomatic ; if symptoms appear they typically begin 3 to 14 days after infection.
The Summary. Nearly 12 million cases of dengue fever have been recorded in the Americas this year, close to triple last year’s total. New research suggests that climate change is responsible for ...
Dengue fever, a potentially fatal virus spread by mosquitoes, is sweeping across the Americas, breaking records with a skyrocketing rate of infections. Cases have spiked in large part due to ...
The total number of dengue fever cases in the U.S. is now more than double the number recorded all of last year, federal data shows. More than 6,800 cases of dengue have been reported nationally ...
(The world’s first dengue vaccination program, launched in the Philippines in 2016, however, was found to increase the severity of the disease for recipients of Dengvaxia who were later infected ...
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]
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%. DENV1, DENV2, DENV3 and DENV4 serotypes have been detected in Mexico. [3]
Mosquitoes carry the virus, infecting humans with their bites. Warmer and wetter climates are associated with higher dengue fever transmission, the agency noted.