2023 dengue outbreak in Jamaica

Disease outbreak in Jamaica

2023 dengue outbreak in Jamaica
Disease	Dengue fever
Virus strain	Dengue virus
Location	Jamaica
Date	2023
Confirmed cases	3,147

In the 2023 dengue outbreak in Jamaica, a significant rise in the number of dengue fever cases was reported in Jamaica. In September 2023 The Ministry of Health and Wellness, Jamaica declared it as an outbreak.^[1] The Guardian reported that the outbreak was influenced by the heat as summer of 2023 was recorded as the highest temperature in 100,000 years.^[2]

Outbreak

The outbreak peaked at around September with over 500 cases across the island. Andrew Holness, the Prime Minister of Jamaica announced a programme of around $200 million to curb the spread of virus at schools, households and communities.^[3] It was declared as outbreak by Health ministry in September citing that virus surpassed the epidemic threshold for July and August and was heading towards same for September. The number of confirmed cases as reported by health ministry were 3,147 with nine deaths, as of November 2023.^[4]

Statistics

Status (as of November 2023)
Number of cases	3,147
Number of deaths	9

References

^ "Jamaica declares dengue outbreak". Global Center for Health Security. 26 September 2023. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
^ oldGeorgiana Gordon-Strachan. "Jamaica's dengue fever outbreak shows the deadly effects of record heat". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
^ "Holness announces 200-m programme to tackle dengue outbreak". Jamaica Observer. 10 October 2023. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
^ Gordon-Strachan, Georgiana (15 November 2023). "Jamaica's dengue fever outbreak shows the deadly effects of record heat". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 December 2023.

Pandemics, epidemics and notable disease outbreaks

List of epidemics and pandemics

Local

Ancient

Hittite plague (c. 1330 BC)
Plague of Athens (429–426 BC)
Antonine Plague (165–180 AD)
Plague of Cyprian (250–266)

Post-classical

Plague of Justinian (541–542)
Roman Plague (590)
Plague of Sheroe (627–628)
Plague of Amwas (638–639)
Plague of 664 (664–689)
Japanese smallpox (735–737)
Black Death (1346–1353)
Sweating sickness (1485–1551)

Early modern

16th century	Influenza pandemic (1510) Mexican smallpox (1520) "Cocoliztli" epidemics in colonial Mexico (1545, 1576) Influenza pandemic (1557–1559) London plague (1563–1564) Maltese plague (1592–1593) London plague (1592–1593)
17th century	London plague (1603) Maltese plague (1623) Italian plague (1629–1631) Massachusetts smallpox (1633) Great Plague in the late Ming dynasty (1633–1644) Great Plague of Seville (1647–1652) Maltese plague (1655) Naples Plague (1656) Great Plague of London (1665–1666) Maltese plague (1675–1676) Great Plague of Vienna (1679)
18th century	Iceland smallpox epidemic (1707-1708) Great Northern War plague (1710–1712) Great Plague of Marseille (1720–1722) Great Plague of 1738 (1738) Russian plague (1770–1772) Persian Plague (1772) North American smallpox (1780–1782) Philadelphia yellow fever (1793–1798)

Modern

19th century	Ottoman plague (1812–1819) Maltese plague (1813–1814) Caragea's plague (1813) Groningen epidemic (1829) Great Plains smallpox (1837–1838) Typhus (1847–1848) Copenhagen cholera (1853) Stockholm cholera (1853) Broad Street cholera (1854) Guam smallpox (1856) Pacific Northwest smallpox (1862–1863) Barcelona yellow fever (1870) Buenos Aires yellow fever (1871) Hong Kong plague (1894)
20th century	San Francisco plague (1900–1904) Manchurian plague (1910–1911) LA pneumonic plague (1924) Croydon typhoid (1937) NYC smallpox (1947) Wrocław smallpox (1963) Yugoslav smallpox (1972) London flu (1972–1973) Indian smallpox (1974) Surat plague (1994) Malaysian Nipah virus (1998–1999)
21st century	SARS (2002–2004) Midwest monkeypox (2003) Bird flu (2003–2005) Singaporean dengue (2005) Indian dengue (2006) Chikungunya outbreaks (2006) Pakistani dengue (2006) Iraqi cholera (2007) Zimbabwean cholera (2008–2009) Madagascar plague (2008–2017) Bolivian dengue (2009) Gujarat hepatitis (2009) Western African meningitis (2009–2010) Haiti cholera (2010–2019) Pakistani dengue (2011) Darfur yellow fever (2012) MERS (2012) Singaporean dengue (2013) Swansea measles (2013) Chikungunya (2013–2014) Western African Ebola (2013–2016) DR Congo Ebola (2014) Madagascar plague (2014) Odisha hepatitis (2014) Polio declaration (2014) Indian swine flu (2015) South Korean MERS (2015) Zika (2015–2016) Angolan yellow fever (2016) Yemeni cholera (2016–2022) Gorakhpur Japanese encephalitis (2017) Saudi Arabian MERS (2018) Kerala Nipah virus (2018) Équateur province Ebola (2018) Kivu Ebola (2018–2020) Madagascar measles (2018) Samoa measles (2019) Philippine measles (2019) Pacific NW measles (2019) New York measles (2019) Kuala Koh measles (2019) Tonga measles (2019) DRC measles (2019–2020) New Zealand measles (2019–2020) Singaporean dengue (2020) Uganda Ebola (2022–2023) Jamaica dengue (2023) Bangsamoro measles (2023–present)