In the americas, dengue, chikungunya and zika constitute a potential epidemiological risk due to the recent increase in. Summary of dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever cases, incidence rate, and. Dengue fever is a mosquitoborne infection that causes severe flulike symptoms and can be fatal. Dengue fever df has been well studied because it is a systemic and. Our aim was to determine the impact of dengue disease on the mexican. History, epidemiology and diagnostics of dengue in the american.
It is estimated that for week 36 of 2016 there have been a total of 8975 cases of dengue, 2081 of which correspond to severe dengue, with 11 deaths. In 2015, 61,710 cases of dengue fever corresponding to nonsevere dengue were reported. Epidemiological trends of dengue disease in mexico 20002011. The threat of aedes aegypti, first with yellow fever and then with dengue, has been linked with the expansion of international trade, economic interests and. Vectorborne diseases account for more than 17% of all infectious diseases. Summary of dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever cases. Epidemiological characteristics of dengue disease in latin america. Abstract dengue is known as an endemic disease of tropical and subtropical regions. Vazquez ja, gomez h 2002 epidemiologia del dengue y dengue. The most common symptom of dengue is fever with any of the following. Reported number and incidence of dengue fever and dengue haemorrhagic fever cases. Approximately 16,500 cases of dengue fever were reported between 1991. Dengue fever is a virus transmitted to humans through bites from the aedes mosquito, a daybiting mosquito.
The actual numbers of dengue cases are underreported and many cases are misclassified. Zika fever, like dengue and chikungunya, is a viral disease. Regarding dengue haemorrhagic fever, equivalent to dengue with warning signs and severe dengue, in that same year, a total of 5626 cases were reported. Any person of any age who resides in or comes from a region in which transmission of the disease is found and who has nonspecific symptoms of fever plus two or more of the following criteria. One recent 20 estimate indicates that 390 million dengue infections occur every year 95% credible interval 284528 million, of which 96 million 676 million manifest clinically with any severity of disease. In this study, we present the probable origins of dengue in america and the. Aedes aegypti, the vector of dengue in the americas, was eradicated from 21 countries in the.