KABUL: Following the outbreak of dengue fever in Iran, 63 new cases of the disease have been recorded, the state-run Iranian news agency, IRIB, reported.
“Most of the dengue fever patients have been travelers who came to Iran from the Persian Gulf countries,” Iran’s Deputy Minister of Health Saeed Karimi said as quoted by the agency.
He added that out of 200 people who visited medical centers with severe bone pain and fever above 40 degrees Celsius, 63 of them were diagnosed with dengue fever.
Iranian health authorities have recently confirmed that nearly 140 cases of dengue fever have been recorded in Iran since the beginning of the current year.
Dengue fever is a viral disease transmitted from an infected person to a healthy person through mosquito bites.
The disease is characterized by severe fever and bone pain.