Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
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GLOBAL STRATEGY
FOR DENGUE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Global strategy for dengue prevention and control 2012-2020.
1.Dengue – prevention and control. 2.Dengue – epidemiology. 3.Endemic diseases – prevention and control. 4.Disease outbreaks
– prevention and control. 5.Mosquito control. 6.Health planning. I.World Health Organization.
ISBN 978 92 4 150403 4 (NLM classification: WC 528)
Full pdf available; http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/75303/1/9789241504034_eng.pdf
Dengue
Dengue is fast emerging pandemic-prone viral disease in many parts of the world. Dengue flourishes in urban poor areas, suburbs and the countryside but also affects more affluent neighbourhoods in tropical and subtropical countries.
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection causing a severe flu-like illness and, sometimes causing a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue. The incidence of dengue has increased 30-fold over the last 50 years. Up to 50-100 million infections are now estimated to occur annually in over 100 endemic countries, putting almost half of the world’s population at risk.
Severe dengue (previously known as dengue haemorrhagic fever) was first recognized in the 1950s during dengue epidemics in the Philippines and Thailand. Today it affects Asian and Latin American countries and has become a leading cause of hospitalization and death among children and adults in these regions.
Transmission
The full life cycle of dengue fever virus involves the role of mosquito as a transmitter (or vector) and humans as the main victim and source of infection.
http://www.who.int/denguecontrol/en/index.html
GLOBAL STRATEGY
FOR DENGUE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Global strategy for dengue prevention and control 2012-2020.
1.Dengue – prevention and control. 2.Dengue – epidemiology. 3.Endemic diseases – prevention and control. 4.Disease outbreaks
– prevention and control. 5.Mosquito control. 6.Health planning. I.World Health Organization.
ISBN 978 92 4 150403 4 (NLM classification: WC 528)
Full pdf available; http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/75303/1/9789241504034_eng.pdf
Dengue
Dengue is fast emerging pandemic-prone viral disease in many parts of the world. Dengue flourishes in urban poor areas, suburbs and the countryside but also affects more affluent neighbourhoods in tropical and subtropical countries.
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection causing a severe flu-like illness and, sometimes causing a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue. The incidence of dengue has increased 30-fold over the last 50 years. Up to 50-100 million infections are now estimated to occur annually in over 100 endemic countries, putting almost half of the world’s population at risk.
Severe dengue (previously known as dengue haemorrhagic fever) was first recognized in the 1950s during dengue epidemics in the Philippines and Thailand. Today it affects Asian and Latin American countries and has become a leading cause of hospitalization and death among children and adults in these regions.
Transmission
The full life cycle of dengue fever virus involves the role of mosquito as a transmitter (or vector) and humans as the main victim and source of infection.
http://www.who.int/denguecontrol/en/index.html