Dengue Outbreak during Ongoing Civil War, Taiz, Yemen

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 25; no. 7; pp. 1397 - 1400
• Main Authors: Alghazali, KhairAlah A., Teoh, Boon-Teong, Loong, Shih-Keng, Sam, Sing-Sin, Che-Mat-Seri, Nurul-Asma-Anati, Samsudin, Nur-Izyan, Yaacob, Che-Norainon, Azizan, Noor-Syahida, Oo, Adrian, Baharudin, Nur-Adilah, Tan, Kim-Kee, Abd-Jamil, Juraina, Nor’e, Siti-Sarah, Khor, Chee-Sieng, Johari, Jefree, Mahdy, Mohammed A.K., AbuBakar, Sazaly
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.07.2019; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; arbovirus; Armed Conflicts; Child; Child, Preschool; dengue; Dengue - epidemiology; Dengue fever; Dengue Outbreak during Ongoing Civil War, Taiz, Yemen; Dengue virus; Dengue Virus - classification; Dengue Virus - genetics; dengue virus type 2; Disease Outbreaks; Dispatch; Expedited; Female; Geography, Medical; History, 21st Century; Humans; Infant; Male; Middle Aged; RNA, Viral; vector-borne infections; viruses; Yemen - epidemiology; Young Adult; Yemen; viruses; dengue virus; zoonoses; dengue; arbovirus; vector-borne infections; Taiz; outbreak; displacement; civil war; dengue virus type 2; Yemen; conflict
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid2507.180046

We identified dengue in ≈51% of patients given a clinical diagnosis of suspected dengue in Taiz, Yemen, during 2016. The cosmopolitan genotype of dengue virus type 2 was most common; viruses appeared to have originated in Saudi Arabia. Damage to public health infrastructure during the ongoing civil war might enable dengue to become endemic to Yemen.