Image: Children stricken with dengue fever jam-pack a ward in Quirino Memorial Medical Hospital in Manila, Philippines, during an outbreak in 2010. Credit: JAY DIRECTO/AFP/Getty Images. Heidi Larson, with Will Schulz and Clarissa Simas. Dengvaxia, the first promising vaccine to protect against dengue fever, was a step forward in fighting a disease that afflicts millions of […]
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WHO Situation Report 01 on Sri Lanka Dengue Outbreak: 82 543 cases, 250 deaths
Report from World Health Organization. KEY HIGHLIGHTS There is an increase in the number of dengue cases in Sri Lanka this year. Since January until 7th July 2017, as many as 82,543 dengue cases, including 250 deaths, have been reported by the Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine. The number of cases this year is three-and-a-half […]
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SRI LANKA: Dengue Fever Epidemic In Sri Lanka Vs. State Responsibility
Image: Anti- dengue campaign by school children. by Sanjeewa Weerawickwama. The population of Sri Lanka is 20.97 million (2015) people. Some 1.84 million are migrant workers. The number of Dengue Fever affected individuals in 2015 was 29, 777. In 2016 it was 55, 154. Statistics for the first 5 months of 2017 show affected individuals […]
