Volume 18, Number 1—January 2012
Historical Review
Daily Newspaper View of Dengue Fever Epidemic, Athens, Greece, 1927–1931
Christos Louis
Table
Accumulated number of dengue fever cases as reported in the newspaper I Kathimerini during the 1928 epidemic, Athens, Greece, August 1928*
| Date of report | No. cases |
Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athens | Metropolitan area† | Greece | ||
| 3,000–75,000 | Mentioned in articles in 1928 | |||
| Aug 15 | 25,000 | |||
| Aug 19 | 43,000 | |||
| Aug 23 | 80,000 | |||
| Aug 25 | 100,000 | |||
| Aug 27 | 150,000 | |||
| Aug 29 | 433,000 | 649,000 | Indicated as 75% of population | |
| Aug 30 | 461,000 | 693,000 | Indicated as 80% of population | |
| 959,884 | Government statistics cited by Mavrogordatos (8) | |||
*Blank cells indicate no information.
†Includes the neighboring city of Piraeus (population ≈250,000) and the remaining suburban area that had a small population in the 1920s.
