More than 1,000 people in Bangladesh have died of dengue fever since the start of the year, official figures showed, in the country's worst recorded outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease.
that causes high fevers, headaches, nausea, vomiting, muscle pain and, in the most serious cases, bleeding that can lead to death.Figures from the country's Directorate General of Health Services published on Sunday night said 1,006 people had died, among more than 200,000 confirmed cases.
The virus that causes the disease is now endemic to Bangladesh, which has seen a trend of worsening outbreaks since the turn of the century. Dengue wards in Dhaka's major hospitals are currently filled with patients being treated beneath mosquito nets under the watchful and worried eyes of family members.The agency's alert and response director Abdi Mahamud said the same month that such outbreaks were a"canary in the coal mine of the climate crisis".and this year's El Niño warming weather pattern had contributed to severe dengue outbreaks in several areas including Bangladesh and South America.
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