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2006 dengue outbreak in Pakistan

Disease outbreak in Pakistan

Disease outbreak in Pakistan

The 2006 dengue outbreak in Pakistan was at the time the worst on record. There were 1,931 lab-confirmed cases, and 41 confirmed deaths, according to the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. Other sources report a death toll of 52. Most of the cases were from the east, center and north of Karachi, the capital city of Sindh.

At the time, dengue was a relatively new public-health challenge in Pakistan. Limited patient-management standards contributed to a higher mortality rate. The principal mosquito vectors - Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus - were already recognized, and subsequent studies identified their increasing role in dengue transmission.

References

References

  1. Ghani, MH. (May–August 2008). "Dengue virus outbreak in the year 2006 at a tertiary care centre in Sindh". Journal of the Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences.
  2. World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. (15 September 2013). "Dengue fever in Pakistan". Weekly Epidemiological Record.
  3. Rasheed, SB. (January 2013). "A review of dengue as an emerging disease in Pakistan". Public Health.
  4. (November 2007). "Dengue outbreak in Karachi, Pakistan, 2006: experience at a tertiary care center". Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
  5. (June 2019). "Changing Climatic Factors Favor Dengue Transmission in Lahore, Pakistan". Environments.
  6. Khan, E. (2010). "Demographic and Clinical Features of Dengue Fever in Pakistan from 2003–2007: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study.". PLOS ONE.
  7. Khan, Jehangir. (2018). "Epidemiological trends and risk factors associated with dengue disease in Pakistan (1980–2014): a systematic literature search and analysis". BMC Public Health.
  8. Riaz, MM. (June 2009). "Outbreak of dengue fever in Karachi 2006: a clinical perspective". Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association.
  9. Mukhtar, Muhammad. (2011). "Entomological investigations of dengue vectors in epidemic-prone districts of Pakistan during 2006–2010.". Dengue Bulletin.
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