Endemicity of Dengue in Pakistan

ABSTRACT

The outbreak of dengue fever [DF] reported in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan continues unabated [Please see the graph]. The capital city of the province-Peshawar remains the worst affected area with over 90% of cases reported from this city. Since mid July to mid October 2017, a total of 87,250 suspected/clinically diagnosed cases of DF including 56 associated deaths were reported. Of these, 18,892 cases have been laboratory-confirmed. Samples from the suspected cases were also tested at the National Institute of Health [NIH] in Islamabad and Dengue serotype-2 [DEN-2] was identified as the causative agent for this outbreak in Peshawar