Dengue Outbreak in Pakistan: Status, Challenges and way Forward
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Waris Qidwai
- Source
- JLUMHS, Vol 18, Iss 04, Pp 250-251 (2019)
- Subject
- dengue outbreak challenges pakistan
Medicine
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1729-0341
2309-8627
Dengue is vector-borne viral infection transmitted to humans by the female Aedes aegypti mosquito1. Infection with dengue virus may result either in an asymptomatic infection or a febrile illness of varying severity ranging from mild illness to more severe forms such as dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome2. At global level, there has been a reported 30-fold increase in incidence of Dengue in previous five decades1.