2017 dengue outbreak in Peshawar

[1] Initially, according to the health department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 4,320 suspected cases were received by Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar and 831 were positive.

[1] About a dozen people died of dengue, starting in July.

Punjab healthcare experts and Peshawar experts worked together to control the dengue epidemic, using health workers going door-to-door to educate residents, as well as fumigation of the city to suppress mosquito populations.

[2][3][4][5] In November 2017, the World Health Organization reported a total of 24,807 laboratory confirmed cases with 69 deaths.

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