The rise of Dengue and other mossie born illnesses

[lugg]

There is quite a concern about Dengue in one of the travel forums I am on. ... and I have to admit I am also concerned about the rise in cases.( and other mossie transmitted illnesses)


I found this information


www.bbc.com/future/article/20240705-how-the-dengue-virus-got-its-name

In the first four months of 2024, more than 7.6 million cases of dengue, and 3,000 deaths, were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO), surpassing the 6.5 million cases reported in the whole of 2023. By the start of July 2024, the WHO's global dengue surveillance system had recorded 9.6 million cases – the highest incidence on record – and 5,366 deaths globally. There were 7,300 deaths from dengue reported to the WHO in 2023.

....of cousre its not a new disease but cases are now being reported now in Europe.

Probably / perhaps another sign of global warming.

[bjd]

Over the past years more and more "tropical" mosquitoes have been moving into Europe and just last week the first homegrown case of one (don't remember if it's dengue) appeared in France. 20 years ago we could eat outside in the evenings and not be bothered but in the past 10, tiger mosquitoes have made being outside impossible here in southern France. There are other mosquitoes too but tigers are more dangerous.

We have nice garden chairs but never eat outside any longer. That is rather petty, of course, but a sign of how quickly things change.

[onlyMark]

Using your 2024 figures the death rate is about a half of a percent which is half of the death rate overall of Covid, maybe because it isn't infectious and is mosquito born. But still a thought as mossies are around and as it does seem to be spreading, a vaccination might end up being widespread at some time.

[lugg]

I think there may be a vaccination already available in some countries , but access is limited in some.

[whatagain]

The son of the grandmother of my daughters got the dengue and was near death for some days and it took him weeks to recover and months to be back as before.
He lives in Martinique.

[cheerypeabrain]

I saw this and thought...Mossie? Our Mossie?

[cheerypeabrain]

We have an asian majority in Leicester city, every year we saw lots of cases of malaria when people visited family in India, Pakistan and Africa. In haematology we we look at 'thick and thin blood films'..a smear of blood on a microscope slide examined methodically for signs of the parasites in infected cells, or for the plasmodium gametocytes. We used special stains to mark the parasitised cells...still took ages to find (if they were there). Usually <1% of cells were infested. plasmodium falciparum was the worst...often fatal, I only saw a few cases of p.falciparum in 30 years at the hosptal.


The carrier of the malaria parasite is always the anophiles mosquito...so far it's not been seen in the uk outside of research facilities. Its being monitored tho...especially as we haven't had a prolonged period of very cold weather over winter for a good few years.