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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]
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne tropical disease caused by the dengue virus. [1] Symptoms typically begin three to fourteen days after infection. [2] This may include a high fever, headache, vomiting, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin rash. [1] [2] Recovery generally takes less than two to seven days. [1]
Dengue vaccine is a vaccine used to prevent dengue fever in humans. [9] Development of dengue vaccines began in the 1920s but was hindered by the need to create immunity against all four dengue serotypes. [10] As of 2023, there are two commercially available vaccines, sold under the brand names Dengvaxia and Qdenga. [11] [12]
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(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 ...
For perspective, there have been 2,559 cases of dengue fever reported in U.S. states and territories since the start of 2024, per the CDC. A large majority of those (1,724) were reported in Puerto ...
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 .
Most people recover in a week or two, but about 1 in 20 people develop severe dengue, which can be fatal. The more times a person is infected with dengue, the higher risk they are for complications.