Dengue Fever The Bone Crusher
Authors:
Fabilla Faiz Arifin, Nadya Rinda Eka Rana, Reyhana Khansa Mawardi, Sekar Ayu Larasati Hari Subagia
Medical Faculty of Universitas Airlangga
Climatic changes over recent decades have already had numerous damaging impacts on human health. Spreading infectious disease, longer and hotter heat waves, and extreme weather will all claim thousands of additional lives nationwide each year. Likewise, there will be impacts on human health. Dengue is the most rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral disease in the world. In the last 50 years, incidence has increased 30-fold with increasing geographic expansion to new countries and, in the present decade, from urban to rural settings. An estimated 50 million dengue infections occur annually and approximately 2.5 billion people live in dengue endemic countries. Since 2000, epidemic dengue has spread to new areas and has increased in the already affected areas of the region. In 2003, eight countries-including Indonesia- reported dengue cases. In Indonesia, where more than 35 % of the country’ s population lives in urban areas, 150 000 cases were reported in 2007( the highest on record) with over 25 000 cases reported from both Jakarta and West Java. The case-fatality rate was approximately 1 %.