BANGLADESH is witnessing a troubling rise in vector-borne diseases, particularly mosquito-borne illnesses such as dengue and Chikungunya. The country鈥檚 worst dengue outbreak occurred in 2023, when government estimates recorded 321,179 infections and 1,705 deaths. By 2024, the numbers had fallen sharply to 8,702 infections and 71 deaths. Yet as of...
An unidentified viral fever is sweeping Dhaka and other districts in an alarming manner, infecting entire families and overwhelming hospitals, while the country has already been battling the outbreak of Covid-19, dengue, chikungunya, and typhoid.
Three virus-borne diseases, Dengue, Covid-19 and Chikungunya, are currently spreading simultaneously in Bangladesh, posing a severe public health crisis...
Bangladesh has recorded 67 cases of Chikungunya and 11 cases of Zika virus so far in 2024, according to a report of The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research...