2016/07/29 by Kristie L. Ebi, Joshua Nealon · 1 citation
Medicine · #Mosquito-borne diseases and control #Zoonotic diseases and public health #Malaria Research and Control #Dengue fever #Aedes aegypti #Aedes #Outbreak #Aedes albopictus #Geography #Mosquito control #Vector (molecular biology) #Environmental health #Transmission (telecommunications) #Socioeconomics #Biology #Ecology #Virology #Medicine #Malaria #Immunology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.envres.2016.07.026
openalex publication_date 2016/07/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
Dengue is the world's most important arboviral disease in terms of number of people affected. Over the past 50 years, incidence increased 30-fold: there were approximately 390 million infections in 2010. Globalization, trade, travel, demographic trends, and warming temperatures are associated with the recent spread of the primary vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus and of dengue. Overall, models project that new geographic areas along the fringe of current geographic ranges for Aedes will become environmentally suitable for the mosquito's lifecycle, and for dengue transmission. Many endemic countries where dengue is likely to spread further have underdeveloped health systems, increasing the substantial challenges of disease prevention and control. Control focuses on management of Aedes, although these efforts have typically had limited effectiveness in preventing outbreaks. New prevention and control efforts are needed to counter the potential consequences of climate change on the geographic range and incidence of dengue, including novel methods of vector control and dengue vaccines.