2006 dengue outbreak in Pakistan

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The 2006 dengue outbreak in Pakistan was at the time the worst on record. [1] There were 1,931 lab-confirmed cases, and 41 confirmed deaths, according to the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. [2] Other sources report a death toll of 52. [3] Most of the cases were from the east, center and north of Karachi, the capital city of Sindh. [4]

At the time, dengue was a relatively new public-health challenge in Pakistan. [5] [6] Limited patient-management standards contributed to a higher mortality rate. [7] [8] The principal mosquito vectors - Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus - were already recognized, and subsequent studies identified their increasing role in dengue transmission. [5] [8] [9]

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  1. ↑ Ghani, MH (May–August 2008). "Dengue virus outbreak in the year 2006 at a tertiary care centre in Sindh" (PDF). Journal of the Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences. 7 (2): 71–74. doi: 10.22442/jlumhs.08720147 .
  2. ↑ World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (15 September 2013). "Dengue fever in Pakistan" (PDF). Weekly Epidemiological Record. 6 (37): 1.
  3. ↑ Rasheed, SB (January 2013). "A review of dengue as an emerging disease in Pakistan". Public Health. 127 (1): 11–17. doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2012.09.006. PMID   23219263.
  4. ↑ Khan, E.; Siddiqui, J.; Shakoor, S.; Mehraj, V.; Jamil, B.; Hasan, R. (November 2007). "Dengue outbreak in Karachi, Pakistan, 2006: experience at a tertiary care center". Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 101 (11): 1114–1119. doi:10.1016/j.trstmh.2007.06.016. ISSN   0035-9203. PMID   17706259.
  5. 1 2 Naqvi, Syed Ali Asad; Bulbul, Jan,; Saima, Shaikh,; Kazmi, Syed Jamil Hasan; Ali, Waseem, Liaqat; Muhammad, Nasar-u-minAllah,; Nasir, Abbas, (June 2019). "Changing Climatic Factors Favor Dengue Transmission in Lahore, Pakistan". Environments. 6 (6). doi:10.3390/environment. ISSN   2076-3298. Archived from the original on 2025-04-15.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  6. ↑ Khan, E (2010). "Demographic and Clinical Features of Dengue Fever in Pakistan from 2003–2007: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study". PLOS One. 5 (9) 12505. Bibcode:2010PLoSO...512505K. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012505 . PMC   2938342 . PMID   20856935.
  7. ↑ Khan, Jehangir (2018). "Epidemiological trends and risk factors associated with dengue disease in Pakistan (1980–2014): a systematic literature search and analysis". BMC Public Health. 18 (1) 745. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-5676-2 . PMC   6003098 . PMID   29907109.
  8. 1 2 Riaz, MM (June 2009). "Outbreak of dengue fever in Karachi 2006: a clinical perspective". Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association. 59 (6): 339–44. PMID   19534364. Archived from the original on 2018-12-24. Retrieved 2018-12-23.
  9. ↑ Mukhtar, Muhammad (2011). "Entomological investigations of dengue vectors in epidemic-prone districts of Pakistan during 2006–2010". Dengue Bulletin. 35: 99–115. hdl:10665/171002 – via WHO IRIS.
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