Source: World Health Organization
Country: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Yemen
Current major event
Endemicity of Dengue in Pakistan
The outbreak of dengue fever (DF) reported in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan continues unabated (Please see the graph). The capital city of the province-Peshawar remains the worst affected area with over 90% of cases reported from this city. Since mid July to mid October 2017, a total of 87,250 suspected/clinically diagnosed cases of DF including 56 associated deaths were reported.
Of these, 18,892 cases have been laboratory-confirmed. Samples from the suspected cases were also tested at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Islamabad and Dengue serotype-2 (DEN-2) was identified as the causative agent for this outbreak in Peshawar.
