Bangladesh is facing its worst outbreak of dengue fever yet. There have been 1,046 deaths since the start of 2023 and more than 200,000 cumulative cases.
Foreign news agencies reported that Number of deaths from dengue fever in Bangladesh throughout this year The number has increased to at least 1,046 on Wednesday, October 4, 2023, after another 16 deaths were found in the previous 24 hours. Meanwhile, there were an additional 2,564 patients admitted to the hospital during the same period.
Bangladesh is facing its worst outbreak of dengue fever yet. 20 September was the day with the most deaths this year at 21 deaths, the same as on 2 September.
“The number of deaths from dengue has surpassed 1,000, with authorities recording 1,046 deaths from dengue between July 1 and October 4 this year,” the Health Services Administration said. (DGHS) said in a statement. He added that this was the deadliest year for dengue since statistics began in 2000, with only 281 deaths last year.
The DGHS said the new infections raised the total number of patients to 214,247. Of these, 203,917 have been discharged from hospitals, with another 9,284 still requiring treatment in hospital, including 2,945. are in Dhaka, while another 6,339 are in hospitals outside the capital.
The record for the most cases of dengue infection in a single month continues to be broken. By August Bangladesh found 71,976 infected people and 342 deaths. Later in September, They found a further 79,598 cases and 366 deaths, while in just four days in October, 56 people had already died.
Bangladesh first experienced an outbreak of dengue fever in 2000, only in the capital Dhaka. But because the weather is warmer and the monsoon season has more humidity. Because of changes in the weather This makes it easier for dengue-carrying mosquitoes to breed in waterways and makes dengue outbreaks more common in Bangladesh.
A Bangladeshi health official said The latest outbreak caught them by surprise. It is caused by a stronger strain of dengue. which many doctors stated The symptoms of dengue fever patients have deteriorated faster recently compared to two years ago, in all 64 districts across the country. All people infected with dengue have been detected.
At the same time, many patients are overflowing hospitals. In Dhaka, for example, hundreds of people infected with dengue are waiting for treatment. Amid shortage of intravenous solution which is very important for the treatment of dengue patients that often causes dehydration
2023-10-05 00:05:00
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