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2017 dengue outbreak in Peshawar
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2017 Dengue outbreak in Peshawar, Pakistan | |
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Location | Peshawar, Pakistan |
Confirmed cases | 24,807 |
Suspected cases‡ | 4,320 |
Deaths |
69 |
‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out. |
In the 2017 dengue outbreak in Peshawar, Pakistan, hundreds of incidents of dengue fever were reported in Peshawar in mid-2017. Initially, according to the health department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 4,320 suspected cases were received by Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar and 831 were positive. About a dozen people died of dengue, starting in July. Punjab healthcare experts and Peshawar experts worked together to control the dengue epidemic, using health workers going door-to-door to educate residents, as well as fumigation of the city to suppress mosquito populations.
In November 2017, the World Health Organization reported a total of 24,807 laboratory confirmed cases with 69 deaths.