Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2019)

Dengue Outbreak during Ongoing Civil War, Taiz, Yemen

  • KhairAlah A. Alghazali,
  • Boon-Teong Teoh,
  • Shih-Keng Loong,
  • Sing-Sin Sam,
  • Nurul-Asma-Anati Che-Mat-Seri,
  • Nur-Izyan Samsudin,
  • Che-Norainon Yaacob,
  • Noor-Syahida Azizan,
  • Adrian Oo,
  • Nur-Adilah Baharudin,
  • Kim-Kee Tan,
  • Juraina Abd-Jamil,
  • Siti-Sarah Nor’e,
  • Chee-Sieng Khor,
  • Jefree Johari,
  • Mohammed A.K. Mahdy,
  • Sazaly AbuBakar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2507.180046
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 7
pp. 1397 – 1400

Abstract

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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 the ongoing civil war might enable dengue to become endemic to Yemen.

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