Dengue Fever In Malaysia



Dengue outbreak malaysia has reported recent cases of dengue.

Dengue fever in malaysia. Malaysia dengue fever cases top 120 000 for 2015. Dengue occurs nationally in malaysia with increased risk in urban and periurban areas. Dengue fever and the more severe form dengue haemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome are the most common and.

Dengue is an illness transmitted by mosquitoes which causes sudden high fever severe headache pain behind the eyes muscle and joint pain rashes and bleeding in some cases. Dengue infection has been an important public health concern in malaysia ever since its first reported case here in 1902 the virus denv is transmitted by the mosquito aedes aegypti which is usually found in urban areas across the world about 100 million cases of dengue infection and 500 000 cases of dengue haemorrhagic fever dhf with 12 000 deaths were reported per year. July through august in west peninsular malaysia.

The who 1997 guidelines classified dengue into undifferentiated fever dengue fever and dengue haemorrhagic fever dhf. In addition 322. Selangor state reports more than half.

Kuala lumpur the number of dengue fever cases in malaysia reached an all time high for the period from january to aug 3 hitting nearly 80 000 cases and 113 deaths reported. Aedes aegypti is considered as the principal species involved in the transmission of dengue viruses in humans 3 4. More than half the cases were reported from selangor state alone 62 000.

The incidence rate of dengue in malaysia had quadrupled from 44 3 cases 100 000 in 1999 to 181 cases 100 000 in 2007 and. The number of dengue fever cases reported in malaysia continues to increase year after year since 2011 and in 2015 we see the highest number of cases and deaths as the southeast asian country topped 120 000 cases. Dhf was further classified into four severity grades with grade 3 and 4 defined as dengue shock syndrome dss.

Dengue fever incident rate malaysia 2018 by region projected number of people with dementia in malaysia 2015 2050 number of reported cases of cholera in malaysia 2006 to 2015. Most of the cases came from selangor with 48 491 dengue cases or 51 3 of the total recorded dengue cases in malaysia.