{"id":20514,"date":"2026-08-27T11:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/27\/who-reports-85-percent-rise-in-dengue-fever-cases-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:45:18","slug":"who-reports-85-percent-rise-in-dengue-fever-cases-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/27\/who-reports-85-percent-rise-in-dengue-fever-cases-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Reports 85% Rise in Dengue Fever Cases in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization has reported an 85.5% increase in suspected dengue fever cases in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In its latest report, the WHO said that the number of cases of several communicable diseases in Afghanistan rose last month, with suspected dengue cases increasing by 85.5%.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, 5 Sunbula, the agency said in a report on Afghanistan&#8217;s health situation that cases of acute watery diarrhoea, acute respiratory infection, dengue fever, measles, COVID-19 and Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever had been identified in different parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, last month cases of acute watery diarrhoea increased by 31.6%, acute respiratory infection by 18.9%, measles by 6.1% and COVID-19 by 79.3%. The World Health Organization also said that Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever cases had been recorded in Afghanistan, but no percentage details were given in the published text.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialised agency for public health and regularly monitors the disease and health-service situation in countries, including Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO says suspected dengue cases in Afghanistan rose 85.5% last month, alongside increases in diarrhoea, respiratory infection, measles and COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-important-news","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}