Aedes agypti epidemic

Outcome of Dengue in Hospitalized Jamaican Children

Issue:

Vol 5 Issue 1 (2018)

DOI:

10.7727/wimjopen.2016.525

Pages:

25-32

Synopsis:

Before the emergence of Zika in 2016 and Chikungunya in 2014, there have been numerous Dengue outbreaks in the Caribbean. Despite this, there is a paucity of published studies on Dengue in children from this region. The potential for exponential spread of the Aedes aegypti dengue vector and its deleterious outcomes in children underlines the importance of this paper.

Background: Dengue fever is hyper-endemic in Jamaica with exponential rates of infection in successive outbreaks. The absence of local data and the potential for massive outbreaks in a country where a third of the population are children formed the basis for this study.

Received:

December 24, 2015

Accepted:

December 26, 2015

Published:

May 2, 2018

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