Disease Outbreak News

1996

22 January 1996

Description of the situation

22 January 1996

Disease Outbreak Reported

The number of cases of dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever continued to rise in November, and the epidemic spread to new areas in the Americas. As of 15 November 1995, over 200,000 cases of dengue and more than 5,500 of dengue haemorrhagic fever had been reported to the WHO Regional Office for the Americas/PAHO. Further details in Weekly Epidemiological Record No. 47 (published 24 November 1995).