00985nas a2200169   4500000000100000008004100001653001400042653003500056653001100091100001900102700001200121245004100133300001100174490000700185520060900192022001400801       2016                            d10aIncidence10aGlobal Burden of Disease study10aDengue1 aWilder-Smith A1 aByass P00aThe elusive global burden of dengue.  a629-310 v163 a<p>Dengue has emerged in the past two decades as a rapidly growing and widespread public health problem, with over half of the world's countries and people now at risk. In new estimates from the Global Burden of Disease study published in <em>The Lancet Infectious Diseases</em>, Jeffrey Stanaway and colleagues suggest that dengue incidence has increased six-fold from 1990 to 2013, accompanied by much flatter mortality trends. Dengue is still regarded as a neglected disease,<sup>3</sup> yet its incidence is increasing at an alarming rate, by contrast with declines in other neglected diseases.</p>
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