Outbreak investigation and control measures following dengue fever cases in Vadodara, July-August 2017

Dengue fever outbreak in Lahore.

Dengue fever has now affected all the major cities of country. About 41,354 patients underwent antibody screening for dengue fever from Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital, Lahore, during the epidemic period (October 1st 2010 to December 20th 2010). Out of them, 1294 (3.1%) patients were positive for IgM antibodies, and 124 (0.3%) for IgG antibodies. A total of 722 (1.7%) patients were bord...

Molecular Investigation of 2013 Dengue Fever Outbreak from Delhi, India

Dengue fever is a self-limiting, acute febrile disease which may aggravate to haemorrhage, plasma leakage and organ impairment in small number of cases. An outbreak of dengue fever occurred in Delhi, India after rainy season in the year 2013. Dengue virus specific RT-PCR was carried out on 378 suspected blood samples that were collected during the outbreak. Dengue virus was detected in 71% samp...

Dengue fever outbreak: prevention possible.

Yellow fever outbreak in Brazil, 2017.

Brazil. The reasons for the expansion of the disease are still ellow fever virus is a mosquito-borne RNA virus that belongs o the genus Flavivirus. The virus causes an acute infection, ith clinical manifestations ranging from mild non-specific llness to severe disease including high fever, chills, severe eadache, jaundice, bleeding, and failure of multiple organs, hock, and 20% to 50% lethality...

Imported dengue fever/dengue hemorrhagic fever cases in Japan

Several dengue outbreaks occurred in Japan from 1942 to 1945. Dengue fever emerged in Nagasaki in August 1942 and soon spread to other cities such as Sasebo, Hiroshima, Kobe and Osaka, recurring every summer until 1945 and constituting the greatest outbreak in the temperate zone. Domestic outbreaks have not been reported in Japan since then. However, the number of imported dengue cases has incr...