Where does dengue come from?
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease. It has rapidly spread all over the world. It is caused by a virus of the Flaviviridae family and there are four distinct, but closely related, serotypes of the virus that cause dengue (DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3, and DENV-4). Whenever we hear the name dengue and the first question that rises in our mind is where does it come from? Here we are going to discuss the outbreak, transmission, and safety measures of the disease.
Outbreak Of Dengue
The disease is now endemic in more than 100 countries like Africa, and Eastern Mediterranean, South-East Asia, and the Western Pacific. America and South-East Asia are the most affected by dengue. The ~70% of the total burden of the disease is just from Asia. Before the 1970s, only 9 countries had reported sev...