Before 1970 only 9 countries had experienced severe dengue epidemics; but the disease is now endemic in more than 100 countries.
So it’s clear that innovation is needed in fighting this disease.
Together we can do just that, by turning big data into a revolutionary and actionable disease surveillance and alert system.
Imagine getting notified in advance when an outbreak would hit your city.
Imagine having THE go to place to check what actions you could do to prevent that
Imagine a world where you can easily review dengue interventions or discover experts on the topic at a glance.
But this project cannot start independent of the collective opinion from the affected communities, as well as other relevant stakeholders – doctors, nurses,
researchers, public health official. That’s why the success of this approach depends on you, and your contribution.
Why you should contribute
Not convinced yet? Discover below what this approach could do for you, no matter the background, the level of interest or specialisation:
If you are a concerned citizen
- Because you can help protect yourself, your friends and family from the dengue threat
- Because you can help protect your community against dengue
- Because it’s time we have a concrete solution to help beat mosquito-borne diseases
If you are a healthcare professional
- Because you can help protect yourself, your friends and family from the dengue threat
- Because you can help protect your community against dengue
- Because it’s time we have a concrete solution to help beat mosquito-borne diseases
If you are a public health official
- Because you can help protect yourself, your friends and family from the dengue threat
- Because you can help protect your community against dengue
- Because it’s time we have a concrete solution to help beat mosquito-borne diseases
2,976,800,000 people are at risk of dengue. Even though dengue ranks as the most important mosquito-borne viral disease in the world, not enough is being done to fight it.
We believe in an integrated approach against dengue. Only an overarching strategy comprising disease surveillance, grassroot initiatives and information campaigns in affected areas can help reduce the problem.
Lack of accurate mechanisms
A key problem in the fight against dengue is the lack of accurate mechanisms to track the spread and impact of dengue. Timely and accurate surveillance is critical to identifying areas where dengue transmission is ongoing or likely to occur so that interventions such as vaccination and vector eradication can be more effective. The Dengue eBarometer is a powerful answer.
Advances in digital technology
Advances in digital technology have led Break Dengue to lead the development of the Dengue eBarometer, a tool that leaps past the limitations of traditional epidemiological surveillance methodology. In the past, the only way to get information was through officially sources which lags behind the spread of a dengue outbreak while also underreporting its extent.
( 1.) The eBarometer brings together multiple data sources including traditional epidemiological sources, search queries, crowd-surveillance from Dengue Track, social media, and potentially other relevant or complementary data. ( 2.) The data is cleaned, assimilated and modeled individually per source and then aggregated into multi-source models. ( 3.) Data output is then made actionable both in terms of format and through specific channels to various public health actors. (4.) Finally, each end user in turn can submit their own observed data (confirmed dengue cases, on site interventions, breeding sites, etc.) that will feed back into the eBarometer.