Dengue fever Likelihood
Dengue is the most common viral disease that is spread by arthropods. Dengue is thought to have a disease burden of about 1600 disability-adjusted life years per million population. This means that in every million people, dengue causes about 1600 years of life to be lost. This is sbout the same disease burden that other childhood and tropical diseases, like tuberculosis, cause. Dengue is thought to be the second most important tropical disease, behind malaria.