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Dengue fever numbers soar on La Reunion - WHO

Published 05/21/2019, 06:24 PM
Updated 05/21/2019, 06:30 PM
Dengue fever numbers soar on La Reunion - WHO

GENEVA, May 21 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people are
thought to have caught dengue fever in an unprecedented outbreak
of the mosquito-borne disease on the French overseas territory
of La Reunion, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
Authorities in the popular Indian Ocean tourist destination
notified WHO of the outbreak in March 2018, since when 50,000
probable cases have been reported, including 22,000 so far this
year, the global health agency said in a statement.
Last year, 6,942 of the suspected cases were confirmed to be
dengue, a 6,000% increase from 2017. So far this year, there
have been 7,700 confirmed cases of the disease, which causes
flu-like illness and can kill.
"The upsurge of confirmed and probable cases reported in
2018 is unprecedented," said the WHO.
There is no specific treatment for dengue, but with early
detection and access to proper medical care fewer than 1% of
sufferers die from the disease.
WHO said 14 people have died in the Reunion outbreak since
2018.
Globally, the number of dengue cases dropped in 2017-2018,
but there has been a sharp increase in 2019, especially in
Australia, Cambodia, China, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines,
Singapore and Vietnam.
Reunion has a population of 866,500, according to French
official statistics.

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