More than 1,000 people have died from dengue fever in Bangladesh since the start of the year, according to official figures, in the worst outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease on record in the country.
According to the data released yesterday, Sunday, evening by the Ministry of Health of the country 1,006 people have died of the more than 200,000 confirmed cases of dengue.
According to former director of health services Be-Nazir Ahmed, the number of recorded deaths since the beginning of the year is higher than that of all previous years combined since 2000, the year Bangladesh recorded its first dengue outbreak.
“This is a large-scale health event, both for Bangladesh and the world,” he told AFP. “The epidemic is putting a huge strain on the health system” of Bangladesh, he said at the same time the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus last month in an online press conference he gave.
Dengue is a disease endemic to tropical regions and causes high fever, headaches, nausea, vomiting, myalgias and, in the most severe cases, bleeding that can lead to death. Dengue and other diseases caused by mosquito-borne viruses are spreading faster and further due to climate changeWHO warns.
Source: News Beast
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