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Countries in SEA Region reporting Dengue in 2003
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Countries in SEA Region reporting Dengue in 2007
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In 2003 only 8 countries in South East Asia Region
reported dengue cases. As of 2006, ten
out of the eleven countries in the Region (Bangladesh,
Bhutan, India, Indonesia,
Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal,
Sri Lanka, Thailand
and Timor-Leste) reported dengue cases. Bhutan reported the first
dengue outbreak in 2004. An outbreak, with a high case fatality rate
(3.55%) was first reported in Timor -Leste in 2005. Nepal reported dengue cases for
the first time in November 2006. The Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea
is the only country in this Region of WHO that has no report of indigenous
transmission of DF/DHF.
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Of
the total world population of 6.2 billion, countries of the South-East Asia
Region (SEAR) account for 1.5 billion (24%). On that scale, of the 2.5
billion people (living in the tropics and sub-tropics) at risk of DF/DHF,
52%, i.e. 1.3 billion population, live in SEAR.
(Figure 1).
Figure 1: Population at risk of DF/DHF
in the South-East Asia Region
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