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WHO Report on Global Surveillance of Epidemic-prone Infectious Diseases - Dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever

Trends

  • The global incidence of DF and DHF has grown dramatically in recent decades (Fig. 6.1).













    • Fig 6.1 Dengue/dengue hemorrhagic fever, average annual number of cases of reported to WHO, 1955-1998

    Fig 6.1 Dengue/dengue hemorrhagic fever, average annual number of cases of reported to WHO, 1955-1998





















  • Indigenous transmission of dengue has occurred in more than 100 countries in Africa, the Americas, the eastern Mediterranean, South-East Asia and the Western Pacific (Map 6.1).

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    Table of contents

    1. Background of the disease
    2. Transmission
    3. History
    4. Description of the data
    5. Trends
    6. Conclusions
    7. References & links
    8. Tables