title: Dengue: a growing menace -- a snapshot of recent facts, figures & remedies.
abstract: Dengue is specially owing to inadequate water supply and poor solid waste management , which are favorable for multiplication of the main vectors including the Aedes ageypti coupled with lack of proven anti viral therapy and no proven efficient vaccine .there are many cases of both dengue shock syndrome and dengue haemmorhagic fever making it a major public health burden sending ominous signal resulting both rising morbidity & mortality, deleterious effect on DALY [disability adjusted life year] & QALY [quality adjusted life year] & though it affect all section of society ,still it affect the poor & underprivileged section more, thereby growing menace in public health in general & in developing countries in particular.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Disease, Kolkata;
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Bhattacharya
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maitra
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ganguly
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhattacharya
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sinha
keywords: Dengue Virus; management; vaccine