10/2/2023-|Last update: 10/2/202303:59 PM (Mecca time)
The outbreak of dengue fever in Bangladesh has led to the death of more than a thousand people so far since the beginning of this year, government health officials said on Sunday.
Figures published by the General Directorate of Health Services indicate that 1,006 people have died out of more than 200,000 confirmed infections, and former Director of Health Services B Nazir Ahmed said that the number of deaths since the beginning of 2023 exceeds the total number of cases recorded since 2000, when Bangladesh detected the first outbreak of dengue fever. On its territory.
According to experts, massive urbanization, climate change and inappropriate control and prevention of the disease, which is transmitted by mosquitoes, are among the reasons for the increasing number of dengue infections in the South Asian country.
The World Health Organization warned last September that Bangladesh was witnessing the worst outbreak of dengue fever in its history, and the director of the organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, indicated in an online press conference that the epidemic was placing enormous pressure on the health system in Bangladesh.
Dengue fever is a viral infection with symptoms similar to influenza, and is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes. This disease spreads in tropical and subtropical regions, and causes severe fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, and muscle pain. Most people can recover from the disease, but it can turn into a disease. Fatal if it causes internal bleeding and failure of the body’s organs.
Cases of the disease increase in Bangladesh during the monsoon period between June and September when mosquitoes, which carry the virus, breed in stagnant water.
The United Nations Health Organization has warned that dengue fever and other diseases caused by mosquito-borne viruses are spreading faster and more widely due to climate change.
2023-10-02 12:34:28
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