Disease

Dengue Fever Outbreaks

Dengue Fever Outbreak Reported In Mozambique’s Northern Cabo Delgado Province

Sixteen dengue fever cases have been confirmed and another nine suspected in the city of Pemba, the capital of the northern Cabo Delgado Province in the southeastern African country of Mozambique.

Health officials attribute the outbreak of the mosquito-borne viral disease to the heavy rains in the province in recent months while people already carry the virus.

Dengue fever outbreak imminent in Nigeria

Nigeria is in danger of Dengue fever outbreak, another deadly fever in the class of Ebola virus disease, said to be transmitted by two types of mosquitoes now rife in the country.

Dr Adeniji, Director of World Health Organisation (WHO) National Polio Laboratory, Department of Virology, University of Ibadan (UI), named the mosquitoes as Aedes aegypti mosquito (yellow fever mosquitoes) and Aedes albopictusis (tiger mosquitoes), adding that the mosquitoes had been observed in Nigeria and that they spent their lifetime in or around homes.

According to Dr Adeniji, “there is no house that these mosquitoes are not present, including big hotels. We have all the four stereotypes of Dengue fever in Nigeria. Although not all mosquitoes are infected with Dengue virus, if bitten by an infected one, it will spread the virus.”

The expert said these mosquitoes, black and tiny, with white patches on it, look alike, adding that a recent case people thought was Ebola virus disease turned out be a case of Dengue fever.