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Outbreaks frequently occur in the Caribbean, Central America, South America, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, according to the CDC. Around 4 billion people live in these high-risk areas.
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 ...
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.
Dengue is a Flaviviridae virus, with five genetic types. [8] [9] Here is the virus drawn as a 3-dimensional model of the envelope protein. [10] Dengue is in the same family as other well known viruses carried by mosquitoes that cause tropical diseases, such as yellow fever, West Nile, and Zika virus. [11]
This year, the incidence of dengue fever globally has been the highest on record, especially in Latin American countries, where more than 9.7 million dengue cases have been reported. That's twice ...
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]
There have been more than twice as many cases of dengue fever across North, South and Central America — more than 9.7 million — in the first half of 2024 than there were in all of 2023, the ...