In the United States, Puerto Rico has declared a public health emergency, with 1498 dengue cases reported so far and a "higher-than-expected" number of dengue cases having been identified among US travelers in the first half of this year at 745 cases, according to the alert. The CDCreports...
Joao Paulo Burini | Moment | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory Tuesday alerting authorities, health care providers and the public of the increased risk of dengue fever infections in the United States. The alert comes as an unexpectedly higher numbe...
In March, Puerto Rico declared a public health emergency after recording 549 cases of dengue virus since the start of 2024. The number rose to more than 1,900 cases as of July 24, when the CDC issued a health alert for the United States. ...
A REPORT BY THE CDC in July 2010 indicates that dengue, a tropical viral infection transmitted by mosquito bite, has returned to the continental United States. From 1946 to 1980, no cases of dengue were reported in the continental United States. Since 1980, only a few cases coinciding with ...
In 1986, the first clearly identified local transmission of dengue in the United States occurred in Texas. Carriers of the virus were believed to have crossed the border from Mexico; the local vector population was then infected. Since then, seasonal autochthonous infection has been reported in bo...
Please find CDC update on Dengue in the US as follows: Nearly all dengue cases reported in the 48 contiguous US states were in travelers infected elsewhere. The few infectious Dengue outbreaks occasionally occur in the continental United States. Dengue is common in the US territories of Puerto ...
This includes, most recently, more temperate areas such as the United States, with more than 35 US jurisdictions reporting at least one case as of August 2023, according to data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The incidence of dengue has increased dramatically in ...
This transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image depicts a number of round, Dengue virus particles that were revealed in this tissue specimen. Credit: CDC/ Frederick Murphy Two people in Southern California have come down with dengue fever without traveling outside the United States, where the mo...
The vector can then pass the virus or bacteria on to a new host. Many of the common illnesses in the United States (including the common cold, many viral causes of diarrhea, and influenza or "flu") are spread because the viruses that cause these illness can be passed directly from ...
13 In the United States, DENV transmission has occurred in Texas, Hawaii, and Florida.14–16 The incubation period of dengue usually is from 3 to 10 days.17 About 75% of infections with dengue viruses are asymptomatic or cause a relatively mild febrile illness. Previously, three overlapping ...