Dengue in Kenya
Country profile for Kenya (Africa): official dengue surveillance data reported to WHO, analysed by the SENTINARA early-warning engine.
Key facts
- Kenya reported 9,371 dengue cases from January to July 2026, +156.8% compared with the same period of 2025, according to WHO Global Dengue Surveillance.
- Deaths reported in 2026 to July: 20 (58 in the same period of 2025).
- In 2024, the last full year, Kenya recorded 4,443 cases, an incidence of 7.7 per 100,000 people and a case fatality rate of 0.000%.
- Automatic early-warning analysis is not available because there are fewer than 36 consecutive months of data, too short for seasonal analysis.
- OpenDengue holds complete annual totals for Kenya since 2024.
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Data updated 2026-10-31. Sources: WHO Global Dengue Surveillance; OpenDengue V1.3 (Clarke et al., 2025), doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.24259573; Dinas Kesehatan Kota Semarang; World Bank Open Data; NASA POWER.