Dengue Fever Outbreak 2023, Bangladesh
This year, Bangladesh is witnessing its most extensive and deadliest Dengue fever outbreak in the past twentytwo years. The number of the reported hospitalized cases of Dengue patients was 271175 up to 31th October, 2023. The number is already more than 2.6 times higher than the earlier highest record of 101300 during the entire year of 2019. The death rate among Dengue patients in hospitals has become extremely concerning. In the last 22 years, there were a total of 837 deaths, but by October this year, the number of fatalities has already exceeded 1348. During the previous largest outbreak in 2019, mortality rate was 0.16% but this year up to October rate was 0.5%1,2 .