![]() While dengue fever isn’t as deadly as other mosquito-borne viruses - such as Japanese Encephalitis, a dengue-related virus found in southern and eastern Asia - large outbreaks can quickly overwhelm health care systems, worsening the toll of other illnesses and medical problems. On June 16, due to widespread criticism of her handling of the outbreak, Peru’s health minister, Rosa Gutiérrez, resigned. The Latin American country is currently battling more than 160,000 dengue fever cases and, as of June 27, has experienced more than 280 dengue fever-related deaths. Now, an unusually warm and wet summer season (perpetrated by a cyclone and an El Niño event), is contributing to the worst dengue outbreak on record in Peru. At the same time, Argentina reported “elevated” dengue fever activity across the country. Since July 2022, the government of Sudan has reported more than 2,700 confirmed dengue fever cases and at least 8,600 suspected cases. In March, Sudan, a country currently embroiled in a civil war, experienced its widest outbreak of the disease and detected dengue fever for the first time on record in its capital city of Khartoum. ![]() While dengue is already endemic in 100 countries, new regions are reporting cases of the virus every year, thanks to travel, trade, urbanization, and climate change expanding the range of the mosquitoes that transmit dengue. Today, half the world’s population - who live in areas where Dengue-carrying mosquitoes are prevalent - is at risk of the illness. They are all names for the painful - often debilitating and sometimes deadly - mosquito-borne disease called dengue fever.ĭengue can cause high fever, nausea, rash, body aches, and stiff movements, and can leave patients suffering from depression and fatigue in its wake.ĭengue has been around since at least the 17th century, but cases of the infection skyrocketed in the last two decades - from only a little over 505,000 cases in 2000, to 5.2 million cases in 2019. ![]()
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