Recent Dengue Infection in Bangladesh: A Seasonal Endemic Progressing to Year-long Serious Health Concern

Sheikh Mohammad Fazle Akbar; Sakirul Khan; Musarrat Mahtab; Mamun Al Mahtab; Takaaki Yahiro; Shohael Mahmud Arafat; Mohammad Abdus Sattar Sarker; Provat Kumar Podder; Mohammad Shawkat Hossain; Faiz Ahmad Khandokar; Mohammad Rashedul Hassan; Md Abdur Rahim; Muhammad Ali Ashraf; Rajib Saha Rony; Akira Nishizono

doi:10.5005/jp-journals-10018-1408

Recent Dengue Infection in Bangladesh: A Seasonal Endemic Progressing to Year-long Serious Health Concern

Euroasian J Hepatogastroenterol. 2023 Jul-Dec;13(2):145-151. doi: 10.5005/jp-journals-10018-1408.

Authors

Sheikh Mohammad Fazle Akbar¹, Sakirul Khan², Musarrat Mahtab³, Mamun Al Mahtab⁴, Takaaki Yahiro⁵, Shohael Mahmud Arafat⁶, Mohammad Abdus Sattar Sarker⁷, Provat Kumar Podder⁸, Mohammad Shawkat Hossain⁸, Faiz Ahmad Khandokar⁹, Mohammad Rashedul Hassan¹⁰, Md Abdur Rahim¹¹, Muhammad Ali Ashraf¹², Rajib Saha Rony⁸, Akira Nishizono²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine; Research Center for Global and Local Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan; Miyakawa Memorial Research Foundation, Tokyo, Japan.
² Research Center for Global and Local Infectious Diseases; Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan.
³ Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁴ Interventional Hepatology Division, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁵ Research Center for Global and Local Infectious Diseases; Department of Microbiology; Department of Advanced Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan.
⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁷ Department of Medicine, Sir Salimullah Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁸ Department of Hepatology, Sir Salimullah Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁹ Department of Hepatology, Shaheed Suhrawardi Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
¹⁰ Department of Medicine, Shaheed Suhrawardi Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
¹¹ Department of Hepatology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
¹² Acute Medicine Unit, Sir Salimullah Medical, College Mitford Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Abstract

Dengue represents one of the most dangerous mosquito-borne viral diseases. Although the disease has been prevalent around the globe over the centuries, recent outbreaks of dengue have devasted the healthcare delivery system of many countries. Being a global infection, dengue virus (DENV) is endemically present mainly in Latin America and Caribbean countries as well as countries in South Asia. The recent outbreak of DENV infection has indicated an exceptional outbreak of DENV in some countries in South Asia. There has been a serious endemic of DENV during 2019. After a heterogeneous pause, another severe outbreak of DENV was reported in some Asian countries in 2023. Among the Asian countries, Bangladesh has reported an acute upsurge of DENV infection in 2023 with record numbers of fatalities. However, this pattern of DENV has not been detected in neighbors of Bangladesh, such as India or other countries in Southeast Asia. This provides an emergent task of dissecting the present DENV infection in Bangladesh from different angles to get insights for future containment of the DENV infection, not only in Bangladesh but also in other DENV endemic areas or DENV-native areas.

How to cite this article: Akbar SMF, Khan S, Mahtab M, et al. Recent Dengue Infection in Bangladesh: A Seasonal Endemic Progressing to Year-long Serious Health Concern. Euroasian J Hepato-Gastroenterol 2023;13(2):145-151.

Keywords: Bangladesh; Changing epidemiology; Dengue; Global emergency; Year-long endemic.

Publication types

Review