Science and Medicine
2017 dengue outbreak in Peshawar
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 worked with local experts to control the dengue epidemic in Peshawar, with health workers going door-to-door to educate residents, as well as fumigation of the city to suppress mosquito populations.
Also on this shelf
Antibiotic.
COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.
See also
- ▸2019–2021 polio outbreak in the Philippines
- ▸Classical period (music)
- ▸David France (writer/filmmaker)
Text from Wikipedia; plate via Wikimedia Commons. Text CC BY-SA 4.0; plate freely licensed (see Commons). Source record. Images and catalogue data are reproduced from open-access collections.