Filipe de Neri Machado, Anthony D K Draper, Frederico Bosco Alves Dos Santos, Marcelo Amaral Mali, Ari J Pereira Tilman, Endang Soares da Silva, Noel Gama Soares, Nevio Sarmento, Maria A V Niha, Ana Fatima Soares, Abdoulie Taal, Joshua R Francis, Jennifer Yan, Megge Miller, James Flint
Dengue virus (DENV) infection causes 390 million infections per year and 40,000 deaths globally. It is endemic in many countries in Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Oceania. Dengue is endemic in Timor-Leste year-round, but peak transmission occurs during the rainy season. We briefly describe the epidemiology of DENV in the Municipality of Dili between 2018 and 2022. There were 6,234 cases notified, with a mean annual incidence rate of 330 cases per 100,000 population. There were 55 deaths (case fatality rate 0...
April 10, 2024: Communicable Diseases Intelligence