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 The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 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,3 yet its incidence is increasing at an alarming rate, by contrast with declines in other neglected diseases.
BT - The Lancet. Infectious diseases C1 -http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26874620?dopt=Abstract
DO - 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)00076-1 IS - 6 J2 - Lancet Infect Dis LA - eng M3 - Comment N2 -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 The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 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,3 yet its incidence is increasing at an alarming rate, by contrast with declines in other neglected diseases.
PY - 2016 SP - 629 EP - 31 T2 - The Lancet. Infectious diseases TI - The elusive global burden of dengue. VL - 16 SN - 1474-4457 ER -