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 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...
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 ...
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 ...
As travel increases and the planet warms, travelers are bringing home "break-bone" or Dengue fever. Learn how and where dengue is spreading in the United States.
the major vector for transmission of the virus of DENV in Europe, although the most important vector worldwide, A. aegypti, was identified in Madeira Island, Portugal, in October 2005. A major epidemic occurred in Madeira in 2012.20Autochthonous transmission of DENV in the United States has ...
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...
In the United States, since dengue is a national notifiable disease, all suspected cases should be reported to the local health department. diagnostic test Most state health departments and many commercial laboratories conduct the Easysweet Dengue IgG/IgM Rapid Test. ...
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