Deputy Commissioner Dr Salma Suleman ordered intensifying dengue surveillance on Thursday after reports of a dozen patients with travel history found infected with dengue fever. Presiding over a ...

Symptoms tend to appear between five and 15 days after being bitten by an infected mosquito, and severe symptoms affecting less than 1 per cent of people include neck stiffness, disorientation ...

Unfurl a mosquito net when sleeping. When choosing a destination, check the CDC’s latest warnings for dengue, as well as other travel health alerts. PAHO also shares dengue data, including the ...

Dengue spreads in an area if a person who acquired it from outside the country is bitten by a mosquito that can carry it – such as the daytime biter Aedes aegypti. Florida has 74 locally transmitted ...

Five more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Thursday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 541 this year. Among the recent ...

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This year's outbreak of dengue, the most common mosquito-borne disease worldwide, is the biggest since records began in 1980, according to the PAHO, which urged stronger mitigation efforts.

Dengue is a mosquito-borne virus that can cause serious illness or death in some cases. Symptoms include a fever, severe headache, pain behind the eyes, muscle and joint pain, and a blotchy rash.

Climate is considered one of the primary drivers for the distribution of other diseases spread by the same mosquito species, such as dengue and yellow fever, because it influences many factors ...