Parasites, Viruses, and Diseases - A to Z - Dengue

Dengue Fever/Severe Dengue Fever

• Between 2004 and 2010, Brazil reported about 450000 cases

• The World Health Organization reported 47 300 cases of Dengue in China in 2014

• A total of 94,623 cases of dengue fever were registered in the state of Sao Paulo in January and February, 82,747 more than in the same period last year, the Ministry of Health .
• Petaling Jaya Ministry of Health states 105% increase in deaths due to Dengue - so far this year.  

Aedes aegypti is the primary vector of the dengue virus or more rarely Aedes albopictus.

The dengue mosquito looks like many other mosquitoes and is difficult to identify without the use of a microscope.

A flashing Mosquito Butt would be helpful.  

 
Dengue became a widely established disease throughout the tropics with the development of commercial shipping during the 18th century.

Ahh progress...it's killing us. 

Dengue is considered endemic to the Americas, south-east Asia, western Pacific, Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. The most significant epidemics occur in south-east Asia, the Americas and the western Pacific.
Okay, it's not really killing 'us' It is killing those who live in certain endemic areas. 
For once the Canadian climate is beneficial. 

World Health Organization Dengue Fact Sheet

• Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection.
• The infection causes flu-like illness, and occasionally develops into a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue.
• The global incidence of dengue has grown dramatically in recent decades.
• About half of the world's population is now at risk.
• Dengue is found in tropical and sub-tropical climates worldwide, mostly in urban and semi-urban areas.
• Severe dengue is a leading cause of serious illness and death among children in some Asian and Latin American countries.
• There is no specific treatment for dengue/ severe dengue, but early detection and access to proper medical care lowers fatality rates below 1%.
• Dengue prevention and control solely depends on effective vector control measures.

Dengue is not transmitted person to person.
Good thing because most of the places that seem to be hardest hit by Dengue are also mass populated. 

Think about summer, now think about how many times you get bit by a mosquito. 

There is always a chance of something like this working its way to our backyards. 

All it really takes is climate change and time. 

Unless you're a moron and don't believe in climate change...