Dengue fever outbreak: At least 283 dead in Bangladesh in record death toll

At least 283 people in Bangladesh have died in 2023 alone after contracting dengue fever, setting a record death toll for the mosquito-borne disease, which as of 2022, was 281.

A mass outbreak walloped the densely populated South Asian country earlier this summer, amid monsoon season, and the numbers continue to climb.

As of Thursday, 37,000 people have become infected with the virus — more than half of which are from the capital of Dhaka — causing a severe struggle for space in hospitals across the country.

"The doctors and nurses told us that they cannot provide us with a proper bed but if we stay, they would treat us,” Shariful Islam, a relative of a dengue fever patient, said on Friday. “We had no other choice,” they added.

Currently, there are no vaccines or drugs that specifically treat dengue fever, however, the disease’s spread is common each year between June and September, as Bangladesh sees a peak in rainfall throughout those months and the Aedes aegypti mosquito (also known as the yellow fever mosquito), which spreads the disease, thrives in stagnant water.

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