{"id":204982,"date":"2025-01-31T00:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T06:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/dengue-fever-with-a-record-12-4m-cases-in-2024-so-far-what-is-driving-the-worlds-largest-outbreak"},"modified":"2025-01-31T00:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T06:14:04","slug":"dengue-fever-with-a-record-12-4m-cases-in-2024-so-far-what-is-driving-the-worlds-largest-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/dengue-fever-with-a-record-12-4m-cases-in-2024-so-far-what-is-driving-the-worlds-largest-outbreak","title":{"rendered":"Dengue fever: with a record 12.4m cases in 2024 so far, what is driving the world\u2019s largest outbreak?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dengue-fever-with-a-record-12-4m-cases-in-2024-so-far-what-is-driving-the-worlds-largest-outbreak.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This may be a global pandemic it is even suspected to hit the USA.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dengue is sometimes known as \u201cbreakbone fever\u201d \u2013 a description that resonated with Braga. \u201cI consider myself to have a high pain tolerance, but the pain was so intense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She needed hospital treatment, after deteriorating to the point that she was vomiting and could no longer eat or drink. \u201cEven after being hospitalised for five days, I only gradually started getting better. The fatigue, in particular, didn\u2019t leave me for about 15 days,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization estimates that 4 billion people are at risk of dengue and related viruses, rising to 5 billion by 2050. The rapid spread over recent years is \u201can alarming trend\u201d, says WHO director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be a global pandemic it is even suspected to hit the USA. Dengue is sometimes known as \u201cbreakbone fever\u201d \u2013 a description that resonated with Braga. \u201cI consider myself to have a high pain tolerance, but the pain was so intense.\u201d She needed hospital treatment, after deteriorating to the point that she was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}