A study released on Wednesday has found that the chances of mosquito-borne dengue hemorrhagic fever occurring increase in a region where outbreaks of dengue fever last two weeks or more.
Researchers commissioned by the government found that there was a higher occurrence of dengue hemorrhagic fever infection — a deadly form of dengue fever — in places where dengue outbreaks last a long time and the number of outbreaks is high.
The Graduate Institute of Epidemiology at National Taiwan University’s College of Public Health was commissioned by the National Science Council to carry out the study because of the growing prevalence of dengue fever outbreaks around the world.
King Chwan-chuan (金傳春), a professor in the institute, said global warming has allowed tropical diseases, particularly those that are mosquito and water-borne, to spread to temperate zones.
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