Pakistan's FETP-trained Workforce Investigates an Outbreak of Dengue Fever in the Gilgit-Baltistan Region

Published on April 8, 2026

Read about Dr. Shah Fahad, a medical entomologist and  FETP Frontline-trained field epidemiologist, and his team in rapidly detecting, investigating, and identifying a case of Dengue Fever in the Gilgit-Baltistan Region. Rising temperatures in previously temperate regions like Gilgit-Baltistan in northeastern Pakistan are turning them into emerging hotspots for this mosquito-borne disease.

https://www.tephinet.org/news/pakistans-fetp-trained-workforce-investigate-outbreak-dengue-fever-gilgit-baltistan-region