Rising incidence of dengue worldwide

Aedes aegyptiis, the primary vector for dengue fever

Over 2.5 billion people – more than 40% of the world's population – are now at risk from dengue. This updated fact sheet explains that the disease is now endemic in more than 100 countries when it was endemic in only nine in the 1970s. The only way to prevent the transmission of the dengue virus is to control the vector mosquitos that transmit it to human

Dengue fever  also known as breakbone fever, is an infectious tropical disease caused by the dengue virus. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin rash that is similar to measles. In a small proportion of cases the disease develops into the life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever, resulting in bleeding, low levels of blood platelets and blood plasma leakage, or into dengue shock syndrome, where dangerously low blood pressure occurs.

                                                 The typical rash seen in dengue fever

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