Dengue death tolls: A nightmare for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Abstract

Fundamental goal of this letter is to toss light on dengue as vector-based infection, its transmission and elevation in death toll ratio in Pakistan chiefly Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) and dynamic strides were taken by government to vanquish such intense circumstances. Dengue is caused and transmitted through bite of infected Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus belonging to family Flaviridae. Symptoms appear within 7 days after bite [1] including flu, pyrexia, pain in eyes, bone pain resulting in Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, Circulatory Shock Syndrome, thrombocytopenia and low heme-concentration. Having no specific treatment, it infected 50–100 million people with incrementing ratio around the world

Keywords Dengue, Fever, Circulatory Shock Syndrome, thrombocytopenia