ASEAN Dengue Day is observed on June 15th.

Important Days

Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease that has rapidly spread in most ASEAN countries in recent years. The virus is transmitted by female mosquitoes mainly of the species Aedesaegypti. Dengue is widespread throughout ASEAN, with local variations in risk influenced by climate parameters as well as social and environmental factors. The disease causes a wide spectrum of disease, ranging from subclinical disease to severe flu-like symptoms and some people develop severe dengue associated with severe bleeding, organ impairment and/or plasma leakage. Severe dengue was recognized in the 1950s during dengue epidemics in the Philippines and Thailand. Today, severe dengue affects most Asian countries and has become a leading cause of hospitalization and death among children and adults in these regions.


      Dengue affected several ASEAN countries, with report of increasing in the number of cases in Cambodia in 2019, and then in Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand in 2020 while continually affecting other ASEAN countries like Vietnam and Philippines.

     

     

 

     


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