Mosquito-borne Haemorrhagic Fever in Malaya

Abstract

Sixty-one cases of haemorrhagic fever caused by dengue viruses and newly recognized in Malaya are reported. Prominent features of the disease were fever, vomiting, abdominal pain, haemorrhagic signs, a marked thrombocytopenia, appearance of Turk cells, and circulatory collapse. The median age was 7.5 years and the case fatality rate was 8.2%. Aedes aegypti was tentatively incriminated as the vector on epidemiological grounds. This is the first report of the disease in Malaya. © 1965, British Medical Journal Publishing Group. All rights reserved.