Where did Dengue come from?
Where did the dengue viruses first come from? Scientists hypothesize that the dengue viruses evolved in nonhuman primates and jumped from these primates to humans in Africa or Southeast Asia between 500 and 1,000 years ago.
Where was the first case of dengue?
The first epidemic of clinical dengue-like illness was recorded in Madras (now Chennai) in 1780 and the first virologically proved epidemic of DF in India occurred in Calcutta and Eastern Coast of India in 1963-19645–7.
