[1][2][3] As of 31 December 2023, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has reported 321,179 hospitalizations and 1,705 deaths due to the Aedes mosquito-borne tropical disease in the 2023 outbreak year.
In June 2023, the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) reported that people are getting affected with the DENV-2 and DENV-3 variants this season, the two with the highest rates of infections and death.
According to the World Health Organization, Dengue Fever is a primarily mosquito-borne illness that can last between 1 and 2 weeks with a majority of cases not showing any symptoms.
Since 2017 the most common form of Dengue has been DEN-3, and according to the Bangladesh Medical Research Council from 20 to 19 indicated an increase in the density of mosquitos in and around Dhaka in the "monsoon survey (18-27 July 2019) of 100 sites of 98 wards in Dhaka city both North and South revealed that the number of adult aedes mosquito was increased by 13.52 folds, in compare to the pre-monsoon (3-12 March 2019) survey.
"[14] Bangladesh is a nation particularly vulnerable to Dengue Fever due to the warm climate and heavy rainfall, enabling the fever to spread through Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes which are described by the UN as "long plagued tropical and sub-tropical regions".