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The global distribution and burden of dengue
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Dengue is a systemic viral infection transmitted between humans by Aedes mosquitoes. For some patients, dengue is a life-threatening illness. There are currently no licensed vaccines or specific therapeutics, and substantial vector control efforts have not stopped its rapid emergence and global spread. The contemporary worldwide distribution of the risk of dengue virus infection and its public health burden are poorly known. Here we undertake an exhaustive assembly of known records of dengue occurrence worldwide, and use a formal modelling framework to map the global distribution of dengue risk. We then pair the resulting risk map with detailed longitudinal information from dengue cohort studies and population surfaces to infer the public health burden of dengue in 2010. We predict dengue to be ubiquitous throughout the tropics, with local spatial variations in risk influenced strongly by rainfall, temperature and the degree of urbanization. Using cartographic approaches, we estimate there to be 390 million (95% credible interval 284-528) dengue infections per year, of which 96 million (67-136) manifest apparently (any level of disease severity). This infection total is more than three times the dengue burden estimate of the World Health Organization. Stratification of our estimates by country allows comparison with national dengue reporting, after taking into account the probability of an apparent infection being formally reported. The most notable differences are discussed. These new risk maps and infection estimates provide novel insights into the global, regional and national public health burden imposed by dengue. We anticipate that they will provide a starting point for a wider discussion about the global impact of this disease and will help to guide improvements in disease control strategies using vaccine, drug and vector control methods, and in their economic evaluation.
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- Authors
- Bhatt, S., Gething, P. W., Brady, O. J., Messina, J. P., Farlow, A. W., Moyes, C. L., Drake, J. M., Brownstein, J. S., Hoen, A. G., Sankoh, O., Myers, M. F., George, D. B., Jaenisch, T., Wint, G. R. W., Simmons, C. P., Scott, T. W., Farrar, J. J., & Hay, S. I.
- Affiliations
- University of Oxford (GB)
- University of Georgia (US)
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- Dartmouth College (US)
- University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- University Hospital Heidelberg (DE)
- Churchill Hospital (GB)
- National University of Singapore (SG)
- Corresponding author
- Hay, Simon I.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2013-04
- Volume
- 496
- Issue
- 7446
- Pages
- 504-507
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC3651993
- OpenAlex
- W2131222241
- Cited by
- 10,037
- References
- 52
- Citations by year
- 2026: 615 · 2025: 704 · 2024: 830 · 2023: 846 · 2022: 816 · 2021: 943 · 2020: 946 · 2019: 922 · 2018: 777 · 2017: 724 · 2016: 744 · 2015: 551 · 2014: 467 · 2013: 141
- FWCI
- 650.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) (acceptedVersion)
- Minerva Access (University of Melbourne) (submittedVersion)
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Spiral (Imperial College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Wellcome Trust (089276, 095066, 084368, 097318)
- European Commission (261504)
- National Institutes of Health (5r01ai069341-05)
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (1090403)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM083224)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01-AI069341, R01AI091980)
- Fogarty International Center
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Dengue and Mosquito Control Research
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Keywords
- dengue, global burden of disease, dengue incidence, dengue risk mapping, Aedes, mosquito-borne viral disease, temperature and precipitation effects, urbanization, dengue prevention, dengue control, tropical and subtropical regions, dengue vaccine
- MeSH terms
- Dengue, Dengue Virus, Humans, Public Health, Quality Control, Rain, Risk Factors, Temperature, Tropical Climate, Urbanization, Global Health, World Health Organization, Cohort Studies, Incidence, Databases, Factual
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