Desk Report
Publish: 19 Jul 2022, 08:18 pm
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Two
more people died of dengue and 51 others were hospitalized in the last 24 hours till
Tuesday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services
(DGHS).
With
these, the authorities recorded five deaths from the viral infection this year.
Among
them, 38 patients were hospitalized in Dhaka and 13 in other districts, it
said.
As many
as 224 dengue patients, including 170 in the capital, are now receiving
treatment at hospitals across the country.
On June
21, the DGHS reported the first death of the season from the mosquito-borne
viral disease.
This
year, the DGHS has recorded 1,840 dengue cases and 1,611 recoveries so far.
Although
dengue – a leading cause of serious illness and death in some Asian and Latin
American countries – was first reported in Bangladesh in 1964, the first
epidemic occurred in 2000, claiming 93 lives that year. It has since become
endemic in the country, with outbreaks recorded every year since. Although for
a three-year period at one point, the number of deaths from the virus fell
almost near zero, its most fatal year yet was in 2019, when 179 died
experiencing the severe form of the disease.
When
the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020, it seemed to take a backseat, as only three
deaths were reported from dengue that year.
However,
105 dengue patients, including 95 in Dhaka division, died in 2021.
Dengue
is found in tropical and sub-tropical climates worldwide, mostly in urban and
semi-urban areas.
About 4
billion people, almost half of the world's population, live in areas with a
risk of dengue, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Each
year, up to 400 million people get infected with dengue while approximately 100
million get sick from infection, and 40,000 die from severe dengue, it says.
"There
is no specific treatment for dengue or severe dengue. Early detection of
disease progression associated with severe dengue, and access to proper medical
care lowers fatality rates of severe dengue to below 1 per cent,"
according to the World Health Organization.
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