Prediction of Dengue Fever Outbreak Based on Case Household Locations in Southern Taiwan

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...

An Imported Case of Dengue Fever in Iran, 2015

Background: Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease which is not known to be endemic in Iran. Case Report: In October 2015, a 32-year-old Iranian woman was admitted with acute unexplained high-grade fever, headache, pain, rash, diarrhea, leukopenia and elevated liver enzymes after returning from India. Serological and molecular analysis for Dengue virus (DENV) infection revealed positive ...

Dengue fever outbreak: prevention possible.

1998 Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Epidemic in Taiwan

patients. Two of these five had concurrent S. haematobium, compared to no cases in nonosteomyelitis patients; a Fisher exact test showed this difference to be significant (p < 0.02). These limited and preliminary data are consistent with the relationship between leprosy (caused by a mycobacterium related to the one causing Buruli ulcer, M. leprae) and concurrent helminth infections. The severit...

Simulation of Dengue Outbreak Prediction

__ Neural Network Model (NNM), Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and Regression Model (RM) are developed to predict the spread of dengue outbreak in Malaysia. The case study covered dengue cases data from Selangor, which include seven mukims and eight administrative districts in year of 2004 and 2005. Specific criteria concerned are location, time (weeks) and intensity of dengue cases. Critical discuss...