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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Published in:Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 25; no. 7; pp. 1397 - 1400
Main Authors: Alghazali, KhairAlah A., Teoh, Boon-Teong, Loong, Shih-Keng, Sam, Sing-Sin, Che-Mat-Seri, Nurul-Asma-Anati, Samsudin, Nur-Izyan, Yaacob, Che-Norainon, Azizan, Noor-Syahida, Oo, Adrian, Baharudin, Nur-Adilah, Tan, Kim-Kee, Abd-Jamil, Juraina, Nor’e, Siti-Sarah, Khor, Chee-Sieng, Johari, Jefree, Mahdy, Mohammed A.K., AbuBakar, Sazaly
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.07.2019
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
arbovirus
Armed Conflicts
Child
Child, Preschool
dengue
Dengue - epidemiology
Dengue fever
Dengue Outbreak during Ongoing Civil War, Taiz, Yemen
Dengue virus
Dengue Virus - classification
Dengue Virus - genetics
dengue virus type 2
Disease Outbreaks
Dispatch
Expedited
Female
Geography, Medical
History, 21st Century
Humans
Infant
Male
Middle Aged
RNA, Viral
vector-borne infections
viruses
Yemen - epidemiology
Young Adult
Yemen
viruses
dengue virus
zoonoses
dengue
arbovirus
vector-borne infections
Taiz
outbreak
displacement
civil war
dengue virus type 2
Yemen
conflict
ISSN:1080-6040, 1080-6059, 1080-6059
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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.
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ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059
1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid2507.180046