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July 2019 – December 2019. Confirmed cases. 52,485 [1] Deaths. 91 [1] In Pakistan, in the summer of 2019, more than 47 people have died and more than 30,000 have been infected by Dengue fever. [2] [3] In October, Prime Minister Imran Khan took notice of the dengue outbreak in the country and sought report from the Special Assistant to Prime ...
According to the National Institute of Health (NIH) Islamabad, 22,938 dengue fever cases were reported in Pakistan in 2017, and about 3,442 cases in 2020. A total of 48,906 cases including 183 deaths were reported in the country from 1 January to 25 November 2021.
The 2019–2020 dengue fever epidemic was an epidemic of the infectious disease dengue fever in several countries of Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Bangladesh, [1] Pakistan, [2] India, Thailand, Singapore, and Laos. [3] The spread of the disease was exacerbated by falling vaccination levels in certain areas ...
Dengue fever is an important infectious disease in Pakistan with increasingly frequent epidemics. [1] Despite the efforts of the Government of Pakistan, especially in Punjab, the high cost of prevention has limited the ability of Pakistan to control epidemics. [2] In Pakistan, in the summer of 2011, more than 300 people died of Dengue fever.
The National Institutes of Health, Islamabad (NIH) ( Urdu: قومی ادارہَ صحت ), is a Pakistani research institute located in Islamabad, Pakistan. The institute is an autonomous body of Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination, mainly responsible for biomedical and health related research along with vaccine ...
Working with Brazil's Butantan Institute, the U.S. National Institute of Health, and Sanofi Pasteur, PDVI provided technical advice and support for the efficacy and clinical trials of their respective dengue vaccine candidates and established a consortium of field sites in dengue-endemic countries across Asia and the Americas.
This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal ...
Kizzmekia " Kizzy " Shanta Corbett (born January 26, 1986) [1] is an American viral immunologist. She is an Assistant Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Shutzer Assistant Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute since June 2021. [2] She joined Harvard following six years at ...