LEARNING THE HARD WAY, DENGUE EPIDEMIC 2019.
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March 4, 2020
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March 4, 2020
Abstract
“The job of each generation is to solve more problems than
they create and to lift up the next generation to be better
than the last. Repeating the past does neither.”
~ LR Knost
Dengue is an emergent pandemic viral illness[[1, 2] ]. Pakistan has witnessed Dengue epidemic since 1994[[3, 4] ].
However this time in 2019, 11941 patients with dengue infection reported to Rawalpindi Medical University (RMU)
Allied Hospitals[ [5] ]. This number is much more than the
incidence reported before in previous epidemics.
During the start of epidemic almost 18000 patients with
suspected dengue reported to RMU and more than 12000
were admitted. To handle this burden, emergency was declared at RMU.
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Authors
Mahmood, D. N. ., & sharif, D. S. . (2020). LEARNING THE HARD WAY, DENGUE EPIDEMIC 2019. Journal of Medical Care Research and Review, 3(3), 347–348. https://doi.org/10.15520/mcrr.v3i3.89
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