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Dengue Fever in Africa

Dengue Fever in Africa
The data of this work is collected from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation.

The dataset is freely available to copy, use, and redistribute for any purpose, even commercial, provided that authors are appropriately credited.

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Dengue fever is a vector-borne tropical disease that is caused by the dengue virus which spreads through several species of female mosquitoes of the Aedes genus, principally aedes aegypti. Typically, symptoms which begin three to fourteen days after infection, include high fever, headache, vomiting, muscle/joint pain, and skin rash and itching. In severe cases, the disease may develop into dengue hemorrhagic fever, where bleeding, blood plasma leakage, and low levels of platelets, or into dengue shock syndrome, resulting into dangerously low blood pressure. There is an approved vaccine for dengue fever, however, since 2018, it is mainly distributed among populations with high rate of prior infection. Since the second world war, dengue fever has become a global issue, and common among more than 120 countries. About 390 million people are infected with dengue fever each African year, half a million are hospitalized, and roughly, 40000 die. Unfortunately, the number of dengue fever cases has increased over the years in some countries.

Below please find our dashboard for Dengue fever cases in Africa.

2000

Select Country:

Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo
Djibouti
DR Congo
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Somaliland
South Africa
South Soudan
Sudan
Swaziland (Eswatini)
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Western Sahara
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Total Number of Cases

125K

Mean Number of Cases per Year

125K

Minimum Number of Cases per Year

125K

Maximum Number of Cases per Year

125K