Table 1 Epidemiological profile of dengue in Nepal from 2006 to 2016
From: Dengue periodic outbreaks and epidemiological trends in Nepal
Parameters | 2006a | 2007b | 2008b | 2009b | 2010a | 2011b | 2012b | 2013a | 2014b | 2015b | 2016a |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of dengue cases | Â | Â | |||||||||
 Clinical dengue | 276 | 100 | 25 | 35 | 1215 | 562 | 1167 | 2340 | 576 | 545 | 4125 |
 Confirmed dengue | 32 (11.6%) | 27 (27%) | 10 (40%) | 30 (85.71%) | 917 (75.47%) | 79 (14.1%) | 183 (15.7%) | 642 (27.43%) | 73 (12.8%) | 26 (4.7%) | 1615 (39.15%) |
Serotype detected | |||||||||||
 Serotype | 1, 2, 3, 4 | ND | ND | ND | 1 | ND | ND | 2 | 2 | ND | 1 |
Gender of confirmed dengue | |||||||||||
 Male | 24 | 17 | 6 | 21 | 530 | 51 | 114 | 456 | 52 | 17 | 960 |
 Female | 8 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 387 | 28 | 69 | 186 | 21 | 9 | 355 |
Affected region | |||||||||||
 Terai | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 15 |
 Hill | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Age wise distribution of conformed dengue cases (years) | |||||||||||
 < 15 | 6 (18.8%) | 14 (51.8%) | 5 (50%) | 13 (43.3%) | 345 (37.6%) | 3 (3.8%) | 11 (6.0%) | 234 (36.4%) | 11 (15.1%) | 6 (7.8%) | 145 (11%) |
 15–40 | 22 (68.8%) | 6 (22.2%) | 3 (30%) | 11 (36.7%) | 234 (25.5%) | 71 (89.9%) | 163 (89.1%) | 378 (58.8%) | 57 (78.1%) | 15 (57.6%) | 876 (66.6%) |
 > 40 | 4 (12.5%) | 7 (25.9%) | 2 (20%) | 6 (20%) | 338 (36.8%) | 5 (6.3%) | 9 (4.9%) | 30 (4%) | 5 (6.8%) | 5 (19.2%) | 294 (22.3%) |