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An outbreak of dengue fever was declared in Cairns, located in the tropical north of Queensland, Australia on 1 December 2008. As of 3 March 2009 there were 503 confirmed cases of dengue fever, in a residential population of 152,137.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends the dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia, for children 9–16 years old with prior laboratory-confirmed dengue virus infection and living in areas ...
A surge in dengue cases globally is raising the risk that people could catch the disease in the US. ... Twenty-three countries reported outbreaks last year with more than 5 million cases reported ...
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 ...
In Latin America, 2019 was a record-setting dengue fever outbreak, with more than 2.7 million cases and 1206 deaths during the first 10 months of 2019. [25] [26] As of 2023, cases and Deaths of dengue fever reached up to 3 million cases and 1302 deaths.
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%.
While most infections show no symptoms or only cause mild illnesses, dengue fever can be severe or fatal, according to the WHO. The CDC reports that fewer than 1% of dengue patients died from 2010 ...
The dengue outbreak, as well as other arboviruses, is analysed by the Ministry of Health in the context of the "epidemiological season", which in this case is in the period 2023/2024, which covers from epidemiological week 31 of the year 2023. until epidemiological week 30 of the year 2024, in which a total of 232,996 cases of dengue have been ...