Posted on 11/12/2019 9:27:56 PM PST by hapnHal
271,480 dengue cases recorded in the Philippines, official data from January 1 to August 31, 2019.
HIGHLIGHTS
Death toll is 113% higher than in 2018.12,526 newly-reported dengue cases and 41 deaths between 25 and 31 August, decreased from 13,192 cases in the preceding week, but 52% higher than in the same epidemiological week in 2018
Weekly Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of 0.33% in epidemiological week 35 (25-31 August 2019) is lower than in the same time period in 2018 (0.40%). This is still significantly higher than the regional average of 0.22% in the Western Pacific.
A National Dengue Epidemic was declared on 6 August 2019
720 deaths in the Philippines: Metro Manila on verge of dengue epidemic
Manila: The spike in dengue deaths topped 100 per cent in the Philippines in the first eight months of 2019. Latest official data show that between 1 January and 31 August 2019, 271,480 dengue cases — including 1,107 deaths — were reported through the Philippines' Department of Health routine surveillance system.
The death toll is a 113 per cent spike compared to 655 dengue deaths reported during the same period in 2018.
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne tropical disease caused by the dengue virus. Symptoms typically begin three to fourteen days after infection. This may include a high fever, headache, vomiting, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin rash.
With a median age of 12 years, the most affected age group among dengue cases is 5-9 years (23%).Similarly, the most affected age group among dengue deaths is 5-9 years (39%).The majority of dengue cases are male (52%), whereas the majority of dengue deaths are female (53%).Between 25 and 31 August, 12,526 cases and 41 deaths were reported.
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Any dengue cases reported here in USA?
I had to look it up to find out what it was.
I’ve heard it before but not for a long time.
Dengue is bad news.
The whole family has had it at one time or another. Nobody died, thanks to God.
It is painful suffering for a week or more.
Q Could this virus be passed to food by a mosquito, such as a squid or another fish product?
Boy you’re asking the wrong guy.
You mean infect the fish and then people eat it?
Great tourist venue!
My older brother got malaria while serving in the Navy.
I hate mosquitoes with a passion. They get no mercy from me.
Dengue can affect any age, any sex. It is a horrible disease. Effects from it don’t always appear with the presentation of the disease. A month after the fever and vomiting, etc., when the actual disease is not long present, the skin on hands and feet can peel off. Hair loss begins about month 3 and continues for another year. Depression, serious debillitating depression, develops and continues for a year and a half. There is a brain fog which accompanies the disease and it leaves a person vulnerable to other blood disorders such as malaria.
It is not a fun illness. I would wish it on my worst enemy if I really wanted them to die.
we have about 30 deaths from vaping with liquids that contain vit e additivies- and the media are hysterical in their zeal to ban vaping- but over 1000 deaths from dengue, which could be eradicated by usign DDT and the msm are like ‘meh- whatever’
Horrid. So sad.
I believe there has been. I read a little on it, it’s mosquito borne, viral infection, with several different strains. If you get it and survive you’re immune to that strain for awhile but not the other strains very long. Viral diseases are a hard to treat. The vaccine working is pretty much limited to those who’ve had a strain of it and survived, from what I’ve read it seems like a Hillary of a disease. In its advanced stage it is referred to I think as dengue hemorrhagic stage. That’s as bad as I think it gets. It’s bad news.
One of my sons got it when he was in the Peace Corps in South America. He travelled from his country to Brazil and got it there.
No. If I had dengue and someone bit me, they would not become sick with dengue. It has to come from a mosquito.
Is this a problem where you are? Stay safe, FRiend.
Y’all were sick only a week? Mine lasted at least 3 weeks; I was too sick to fully remember. And, the effects continued for almost two years. I needed to have IV fluids for a while because the my entire digestive tract was everywhere. Or, at least it seemed that way. Then, since my red cells were way destroyed, I was tired ~ anemic ~ for quite some time after.
And they’d probably catch the beating of a lifetime :)
I had not even heard about it till now. I know it’s around. My wife’s friend’s 7 year old had it for about 10 days, but it does not appear to have been real bad. There is no doubt she was sick, but I thought it would be worse that that.
Isn’t DDT available?
Does 113% higher mean 13% higher than the 2018 cases or 213% as many as the 2018 cases.
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