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 number of dengue fever cases have been reported ...
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...
History of Dengue in the United States Dengue was first described in the USA by Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia in 1780, and though the causative agent was not identified, the clinical presentations were compatible with classic dengue fever [3]. Dengue soon began to continually show itself in the...
Dengue is a febrile illness caused by any of the four dengue virus types (DENV-1 to -4, genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae) mainly transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti. DENV can be transmitted by blood transfusion. Dengue has been historically present in the continental United States (...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory on Tuesday alerting healthcare providers about an increased risk of dengue virus infections in the United States. Cases of the mosquito-borne viral illness have touched a record high in the Americas this year, the agency ...
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...
In the United States, dengue reappeared in the early 2000s following 75 years of absence, leading to locally acquired disease (Anez and Rios, 2013). This re-emergence was due to the widespread distribution of Aedes, insufficient mosquito control measures, availability of mosquito habitats in ...
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 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. ...
In the United States, the numbershave been far more modest—about 3,000 cases last year in U.S. states and territories. But it was the worst in a decade, and included more infections that occurred locally, courtesy of native mosquitoes. Most were in Puerto Rico, but about 180 were in ...