PHOTOS: Dengue Fever outbreaks causing problems around the globe
November 12, 2013
A Pakistani child suffering from the mosquito-borne disease, dengue fever, rests in a bed covered with a net at an isolation ward of a hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Monday, Nov. 11, 2013. Dengue, a flu-like illness is spread by the Aedes mosquito and spikes during the annual monsoons, when the rains leave puddles of stagnant water where the insects breed. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) ( Pakistan Dengue Fever )
Eighteen-year-old Indian resident Mohammad Awwal (R), who is suffering from dengue fever, rests on the ground with his mother Mehrunissa at his home in New Delhi on on October 2, 2013. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease with no known cure or vaccination that strikes fear into the citizens of New Delhi when it arrives with the monsoon rains -- just as the scorching heat of the summer is subsiding. MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images ( 523923122 )
Policemen wear safety suits before an operation to disinfect of tiger mosquitos an area in the centre of Ajaccio, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, on November 7, 2013. Two people back from vacation with dengue fever caused the health services to decontaminate an area in the centre of the city. PASCAL POCHARD CASABIANCA/AFP/Getty Images ( 524431994 )
A car from the Malaysian ministry of health sprays dengue insecticide among residential houses in Gombak, on the outskirt of Kuala Lumpur on November 5, 2013. A Malaysian health official on November 4, warned citizens to take steps to eliminate mosquito breeding spots as dengue fever cases have spiked. MOHD RASFAN/AFP/Getty Images ( 524361350 )
A member of the Health Ministry fumigates a home against the Aedes aegypti mosquito to prevent the spread of dengue fever in Managua, on October 25, 2013. The Nicaraguan government issued a health red alert as a dengue fever epidemic has killed 13 people so far this year - six in the past week - and infected more than 4,000 individuals, according to presidential spokesman Rosario Murillo. Dengue, transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, occurs in Central America mostly during its rainy season from May to November. The disease causes fever, muscle and joint ache as well as potentially fatal dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome. AFP PHOTO / Inti OCONInti Ocon/AFP/Getty Images ( 524088482 )
A boy (L) looks at a municipal council worker dispensing insecticide using a fogging machine among residential houses in Gombak, on the outskirt of Kuala Lumpur on November 5, 2013. A Malaysian health official on November 4, warned citizens to take steps to eliminate mosquito breeding spots as dengue fever cases have spiked. MOHD RASFAN/AFP/Getty Images ( 524365346 )
In this picture taken on October 3, 2013, an Indian Municipal health worker fumigates against mosquitoes at a neighborhood in New Delhi. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease with no known cure or vaccination that strikes fear into the citizens of New Delhi when it arrives with the monsoon rains -- just as the scorching heat of the summer is subsiding. MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images ( 523923136 )
A Pakistani woman, looks after her daughter suffering from the mosquito-borne disease, dengue fever, while laying in bed covered with a net at an isolation ward of a hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. Dengue, a flu-like illness, is spread by the Aedes mosquito and spikes during the annual monsoons in Pakistan, when the rains leave puddles of stagnant water where the insects breed. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) ( Pakistan Dengue Fever )
A Pakistani man suffering from the mosquito-borne disease, dengue fever, lies in a bed covered with a net at an isolation ward of a hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Monday, Nov. 11, 2013. Dengue, a flu-like illness is spread by the Aedes mosquito and spikes during the annual monsoons, when the rains leave puddles of stagnant water where the insects breed. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) ( Pakistan Dengue Fever )
A Pakistani boy looks after his father whose suffering from the mosquito-borne disease, dengue fever, while laying in bed covered with a net at an isolation ward of a hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. Dengue, a flu-like illness, is spread by the Aedes mosquito and spikes during the annual monsoons in Pakistan, when the rains leave puddles of stagnant water where the insects breed. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) ( Pakistan Dengue Fever )
People wait to be treated from dengue fever, at the Cristo del Rosario health centre in Managua, on October 25, 2013. The Nicaraguan government issued a health red alert as a dengue fever epidemic has killed 13 people so far this year - six in the past week - and infected more than 4,000 individuals, according to presidential spokesman Rosario Murillo. Dengue, transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, occurs in Central America mostly during its rainy season from May to November. The disease causes fever, muscle and joint ache as well as potentially fatal dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome. Inti Ocon/AFP/Getty Images ( 524088627 )
Patients with dengue fever are treated at Khanh Hoa General Hospital in Nha Trang, Vietnam on Sept. 4, 2013. Mosquitoes are being reared with Wolbachia bacteria that works as a natural vaccine to keep them from becoming infected with the virus that causes dengue. They were released on an island in central Vietnam as part of research to help determine whether the bacteria can help in the fight against the disease. (AP Photo/Margie Mason) ( Vietnam Dengue Proof Mosquito )
Dang Thi Kim Muon, 21, who has dengue fever, lays in the emergency room at the central hospital of Nha Trang city, Khanh Hoa province, Vietnam on Sept. 3, 2013. The province has a record year and home to the country's highest rate of dengue. New research suggests some 390 million people are infected with the virus each year, most of them in Asia. That's about one in every 18 people on Earth, and more than three times higher than the World Health Organization's previous estimates. Known as 'breakbone fever' because of the excruciating joint pain and hammer-pounding headaches it causes, the disease has no vaccine, cure or specific treatment. Most patients must simply suffer through days of raging fever, sweats and a bubbling rash. For those who develop a more serious form of illness, known as dengue hemorrhagic fever, internal bleeding, shock, organ failure and death can occur. (AP Photo/Na Son Nguyen) ( Vietnam Dengue Blocking Mosquito )
Le Van Minh, 44, takes care of his daughter Le Thi Kim Tho, 9, who has dengue fever at the central hospital of Nha Trang city, Khanh Hoa province, Vietnam on Sept. 3, 2013. The province has a record year and home to the country's highest rate of dengue. New research suggests some 390 million people are infected with the virus each year, most of them in Asia. That's about one in every 18 people on Earth, and more than three times higher than the World Health Organization's previous estimates. Known as 'breakbone fever' because of the excruciating joint pain and hammer-pounding headaches it causes, the disease has no vaccine, cure or specific treatment. Most patients must simply suffer through days of raging fever, sweats and a bubbling rash. (AP Photo/Na Son Nguyen) ( Vietnam Dengue Blocking Mosquito )
In this picture taken on October 3, 2013, an Indian woman (L) watches as a municipal health worker (back R) fumigates against mosquitoes at a neighborhood in New Delhi. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease with no known cure or vaccination that strikes fear into the citizens of New Delhi when it arrives with the monsoon rains -- just as the scorching heat of the summer is subsiding. MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images ( 523923115 )
In this picture taken on October 3, 2013, Indian women cover their faces from smoke after a municipal health worker fumigated against mosquitoes at a neighborhood in New Delhi. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease with no known cure or vaccination that strikes fear into the citizens of New Delhi when it arrives with the monsoon rains -- just as the scorching heat of the summer is subsiding. MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images ( 523923133 )
Pakistani patients, suffering from the mosquito-borne disease, dengue fever, lay in beds covered with nets at an isolation ward of a hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. Dengue, a flu-like illness, is spread by the Aedes mosquito and spikes during the annual monsoons in Pakistan, when the rains leave puddles of stagnant water where the insects breed. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) ( Pakistan Dengue Fever )
Pakistani boy, Awais Shaukat, 13, suffering from the mosquito-borne disease, dengue fever, is comforted by his father Shaukat while lying in bed covered with a net at an isolation ward of a hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. Dengue, a flu-like illness, is spread by the Aedes mosquito and spikes during the annual monsoons in Pakistan, when the rains leave puddles of stagnant water where the insects breed. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) ( APTOPIX Pakistan Dengue Fever )
A Pakistani child suffering from the mosquito-borne disease, dengue fever, lies in a bed, next to his mother, covered with a net at an isolation ward of a hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Monday, Nov. 11, 2013. Dengue, a flu-like illness is spread by the Aedes mosquito and spikes during the annual monsoons, when the rains leave puddles of stagnant water where the insects breed. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) ( Pakistan Dengue Fever )
An Indian Municipal health worker fumigates against mosquitoes at a neighborhood in New Delhi on October 3, 2013. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease with no known cure or vaccination that strikes fear into the citizens of New Delhi when it arrives with the monsoon rains -- just as the scorching heat of the summer is subsiding. MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images ( 523923117 )
An Indian woman covers her face from smoke as a municipal health worker (back R) fumigates against mosquitoes at a neighborhood in New Delhi on October 3, 2013. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease with no known cure or vaccination that strikes fear into the citizens of New Delhi when it arrives with the monsoon rains -- just as the scorching heat of the summer is subsiding. MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images ( 523923120 )
An Indian woman covers her face from smoke after a municipal health worker fumigated against mosquitoes at a neighborhood in New Delhi on October 3, 2013. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease with no known cure or vaccination that strikes fear into the citizens of New Delhi when it arrives with the monsoon rains -- just as the scorching heat of the summer is subsiding. MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images ( 523923128 )
Indian children follow as a municipal corporation vehicle fumigates a slum area to prevent mosquitos from breeding in Siliguri on November 7, 2013. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease with no known cure or vaccination that arrives across the sub-continent with the monsoon rains , just as the scorching heat of the summer is subsiding. DIPTENDU DUTTA/AFP/Getty Images ( 524426965 )
Indian children follow a vehicle as municipal corporation workers fumigate a slum area to prevent mosquitos from breeding in Siliguri on November 7, 2013. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease with no known cure or vaccination that arrives across the sub-continent with the monsoon rains , just as the scorching heat of the summer is subsiding. DIPTENDU DUTTA/AFP/Getty Images ( 524427005 )
An Indian Municipal health worker fumigates against mosquitoes at a neighborhood in New Delhi on October 3, 2013. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease with no known cure or vaccination that strikes fear into the citizens of New Delhi when it arrives with the monsoon rains -- just as the scorching heat of the summer is subsiding. MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images ( 523923131 )
A member of the Health Ministry fumigates a home against the Aedes aegypti mosquito to prevent the spread of dengue fever in Managua, on October 25, 2013. The Nicaraguan government issued a health red alert as a dengue fever epidemic has killed 13 people so far this year - six in the past week - and infected more than 4,000 individuals, according to presidential spokesman Rosario Murillo. Dengue, transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, occurs in Central America mostly during its rainy season from May to November. The disease causes fever, muscle and joint ache as well as potentially fatal dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome. Inti Ocon/AFP/Getty Images ( 524088476 )
Indian residents walk past the home of Mohammad Awwal, 18, who is suffering from dengue fever in New Delhi on October 2, 2013. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease with no known cure or vaccination that strikes fear into the citizens of New Delhi when it arrives with the monsoon rains -- just as the scorching heat of the summer is subsiding. MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images ( 523923124 )
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