Dengue Outbreak during Ongoing Civil War, Taiz, Yemen.

Dengue Outbreak during Ongoing Civil War, Taiz, Yemen. Emerg Infect Dis. 2019 Jul 17;25(7): Authors: Alghazali KA, Teoh BT, Loong SK, Sam SS, Che-Mat-Seri NA, Samsudin NI, Yaacob CN, Azizan NS, Oo A, Baharudin NA, Tan KK, Abd-Jamil J, Nor'e SS, Khor CS, Johari J, Mahdy MAK, AbuBakar S Abstract 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 ongoing civil war might enable dengue to become endemic to Yemen. PMID: 30924766 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - March 30, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Alghazali KA, Teoh BT, Loong SK, Sam SS, Che-Mat-Seri NA, Samsudin NI, Yaacob CN, Azizan NS, Oo A, Baharudin NA, Tan KK, Abd-Jamil J, Nor'e SS, Khor CS, Johari J, Mahdy MAK, AbuBakar S Tags: Emerg Infect Dis Source Type: research