The infection can be life-threatening if you don’t treat it. If you're pregnant, you can spread the virus to yourbaby. Having dengue fever increases the risk of pregnancy complications such as preterm birth and low birth weight. Dengue fever fatality rate ...
In 2002, a dengue outbreak occurred in Taiwan with 5336 confirmed cases, 242 DHF and 21 death, the case fatality rate reached 8.7% (21/242). The demographic data of these age-specific dengue patients showed that dengue virus infection caused symptom primarily occurred in adults. A comparative...
There are many factors why the death rate in the Philippines is way higher than its neighboring countries, Galappaththy said. For instance, she said some people wait for a few days before they bring their sick children to the health center for check-up. "Sometimes it's too late before th...
Dengue fever can occur when a mosquito carrying the arbovirus bites a human, passing the virus on to the new host. Once in the body, the virus travels to various glands where it multiplies. The virus can then enter the bloodstream. The presence of the virus within the blood vessels, espe...
Dengue Fever is a viral disease induced by Dengue virus (of the genus Flavivirus) that is pandemic-prone and is quickly emerging in many parts of the world, most notably in tropical and sub-tropical climates. The disease is created by a mosquito carried viral infection that causes intense fl...
p̄M→H(d) The average daily probability of virus transmission from an infected human to a susceptible mosquito that bites the infected human. [0, 0.97] M̄(d) The average number of female mosquitoes that are trapped in a BG-sentinel trap. [0, 3] RH̄(d) The average daily relat...
Dengue fever is a viral infection transmitted to humans by mosquitoes that live in tropical and subtropical climates and carry the virus. Blood testing detects the dengue virus or antibodies produced in response to dengue infection. Nowadays, the doctors need to know the set ...
African swine fever is an enduring virus. It requires high temperatures to kill and it can survive up to three years in frozen meat and up to one year in dried meat. The virus affects pigs and wild boars and has an almost 100 percent death rate. The virus cannot be passed from animals...
This time it is an epidemic of dengue, a viral disease with symptoms ranging from fever, headache and joint pain to bleeding, organ failure and sometimes, death. The virus is carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito that lays its eggs in standing water, of which there is a lot in Piura si...
Moreover, most prevalent serotype of dengue virus is determined by surveying the current data. Results: It is estimated that there were 24,956 lives lost world wide during 2000-2009 as a consequence of dengue infection (DF/DHF/DSS) with an average CFR of 0.24%. These figures are ...