Dengue haemorrhagic fever : diagnosis, treatment and control

Abstract

Dengue haemorrhagic fever is an increasing public health problem in most tropical areas in South-East Asia and the Western Pacific, and has recently been spreading in some parts of the American tropics, where in 1981 a very serious epidemic occurred in Cuba

Drawing on experience from all these areas, this book provides valuable guidance to health staff at all levels who are called upon to care for patients or who are concerned with routine surveillance or the control of outbreaks. The final chapter indicates how primary health care workers can make important contributions by learning to recognize possible cases of dengue haemorrhagic fever at an early stage and by helping to reduce the numbers of the mosquitos that transmit the dengue virus

Publicado en español bajo WNSP/87-02

Technical Advisory Group on Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever/Dengue Schock Syndrome. World Health Organization; 30-31 Aug. 1983