Dengue Outbreak during Ongoing Civil War, Taiz, Yemen

Dengue Outbreak during Ongoing Civil War, Taiz, Yemen

We identified dengue in ≈51% of patients given a clinical diagnosis of suspected dengue in Taiz, Yemen, during 2016. The cosmopolitan genotype of dengue virus type 2 was most common; viruses appeared to have originated in Saudi Arabia. Damage to public health infrastructure during the ongoing civil...

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Main Authors: KhairAlah A. Alghazali, Boon-Teong Teoh, Shih-Keng Loong, Sing-Sin Sam, Nurul-Asma-Anati Che-Mat-Seri, Nur-Izyan Samsudin, Che-Norainon Yaacob, Noor-Syahida Azizan, Adrian Oo, Nur-Adilah Baharudin, Kim-Kee Tan, Juraina Abd-Jamil, Siti-Sarah Nor’e, Chee-Sieng Khor, Jefree Johari, Mohammed A.K. Mahdy, Sazaly AbuBakar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019-07-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
dengue
dengue virus
dengue virus type 2
viruses
arbovirus
vector-borne infections
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/7/18-0046_article
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Summary:We identified dengue in ≈51% of patients given a clinical diagnosis of suspected dengue in Taiz, Yemen, during 2016. The cosmopolitan genotype of dengue virus type 2 was most common; viruses appeared to have originated in Saudi Arabia. Damage to public health infrastructure during the ongoing civil war might enable dengue to become endemic to Yemen.
ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059

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