Philippines | October 27, 2014
Dengue was first reported in 1950s in Philippines and Thailand
So far there are 10,000 reported cases of Ebola in West Africa. So far 4,500 have died. This is the number since March of 2014.
Compare that to the number of dengue cases in the Philippines - there were 42, 207 cases from January 193 being fatal.
Worldwide:
The incidence of dengue has grown dramatically around the world in recent decades. Over 2.5 billion people – over 40% of the world's population – are now at risk from dengue. WHO currently estimates there may be 50–100 million dengue infections worldwide every year.
Cases across the Americas, South-east Asia and Western Pacific have exceeded 1.2 million cases in 2008 and over 2.3 million in 2010 (based on official data submitted by Member States). Recently the number of reported cases has continued to increase. In 2013, 2.35 million cases of dengue were reported in the Americas alone, of which 37 687 cases were severe dengue.
Not only is the number of cases increasing as the disease spreads to new areas, but explosive outbreaks are occurring. The threat of a possible outbreak of dengue fever now exists in Europe and local transmission of dengue was reported for the first time in France and Croatia in 2010 and imported cases were detected in three other European countries. In 2012, an outbreak of dengue on Madeira islands of Portugal resulted in over 2000 cases and imported cases were detected in 10 other countries in Europe apart from mainland Portugal.
(Dengue and Ebola are both level 4 diseases: fatal usually and no known cures. Only strong body resistance can halt its morbidity; both are hemorrhagic)We should be more worried about dengue, and other mosquito borne diseases. About a million die annually from mosquito bites making it the deadliest animal on earth
About 390 million are infected by mosquitoes, with 500,000 of them developing into dengue; 25,000 deaths result form dengue
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