Deadliest year for dengue fever in Bangladesh as cases explode in Dhaka
Dengue season usually begins with June’s monsoon rains in Dhaka. An unavoidable fact of life, it proves deadly to a handful of unfortunate victims but by September it has mostly disappeared from the Bangladeshi capital.
But this year the disease has seen more than a tripling of numbers of recorded cases in the city – alongside a lengthening of its season.
And the explosion is being reported in other countries too. Dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease, has been spreading rapidly in the past few years.
By mid-October, almost 7,450 cases of dengue had been reported in Bangladesh and 17 deaths (pdf), making it the deadliest year since the first recorded epidemic in 2000.
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on Nov 25 2018. Filed under Bangladesh Exclusive.
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