Indian Journal of Public Health (Sep 2024)

Global Warming and Rising Threat of Dengue Fever: Expectations in Disease Management

  • Swati Sinha,
  • Auley De,
  • Ajanta Halder

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/ijph.ijph_1264_23
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 68, no. 3
pp. 444 – 446

Abstract

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Arbovirus-borne dengue fever remains a global public health threat. The actual burden of dengue infection may be underestimated due to undiagnosed or misdiagnosed fever cases. The distribution of dengue is influenced by both climatic and nonclimatic factors, including global warming, which affects the vector population and transmission period. Other factors, such as serotype evolution and host immunity, also contribute to the spread of the virus. Different serotypes of the dengue virus show different clinical manifestations. The prevalence of serotypes varies geographically and over time. Early diagnosis and characterization of circulating viruses at the genomic level are important for disease prevention and control.

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