Sentence examples for severe dengue outbreak from inspiring English sources

In 2002, DENV-3 caused the most severe dengue outbreak in the country and sporadic outbreaks continued to be documented through 2005 (4 ).

Moreover, inclusion of meteorological predictors into both autoregressive models provided significant forecast skill improvement during the most critical situations (during severe dengue outbreaks) compared with their autoregressive counterparts without meteorological predictors.

"Before 1970 only seven countries had experienced serious dengue outbreaks," says Farrar.

"Clearly, we have the potential for serious dengue outbreaks,'' Michael S. Doyle told me.

Therefore, the need for new antiviral agents is imperative for early treatment to prevent manifestation of severe dengue, to curb outbreaks and in the future to complement possible vaccination programs.

In Sri Lanka in the 1980's, a DENV3 strain (subtype III, group B) that caused a high incidence of severe disease displaced a native DENV3 strain (subtype III, group A) that had been associated with milder disease [ 38], resulting in an outbreak of severe dengue disease that persists to the present day.

Since there is currently neither a vaccine nor antiviral therapy available to control the spread of dengue [ 84], a better understanding of the potential for transmission of highly virulent strains is needed in order to guide surveillance and target control efforts in order to best prevent outbreaks of severe dengue disease.

In the 1981 dengue outbreak in Cuba, hospitalization and death rates for severe and very severe dengue, postulated to be equivalent to DHF and DSS, were highest in those <15 years of age and those >60 years of age (26 ).

The World Health Organization estimates that each year about half a million cases of severe dengue require hospitalization, and dengue frequently strikes in outbreaks that suddenly overwhelm hospitals.

Years 2006 and 2007 were marked by a high prevalence of DENV-3 and 2007 with a large dengue outbreak and a high proportion of patients with severe disease.

Dengue infection results in a wide spectrum of clinical severity, from self-limiting dengue fever to severe dengue.