Dengue Outbreak
Disease
In brief
- What happenedAccording to the county department of health in Mombasa, the first Dengue cases were reported in early March 2021, with 24 cases testing positive out of 47 (51% positivity rate).
- How many affectedAffected persons: 553
- What help is neededResponse priorities should be confirmed in the linked source reports as needs change.
What changed
First retained snapshot
No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.
Situation
According to the county department of health in Mombasa, the first Dengue cases were reported in early March 2021, with 24 cases testing positive out of 47 (51% positivity rate). In April, another 305 cases tested positive out of 315 (97% positivity rate). The adjacent Lamu county has also reported a total of 224 posit
WorldsAid verification
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Verified figures
- Affected persons
- 553 retained at 2021-05-18
What we knew when
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- Last verification represented by this immutable snapshot.
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Provenance
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Verified
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