Dengue Risk among Visitors to Hawaii during an Outbreak

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Smith, Carrie E. ; Tom, Tammy ; Sasaki, Jed ; Ayers, Tracy ; Effler, Paul V.
• Description:
  Despite the high rates of dengue in many tropical destinations frequented by tourists, limited information is available on the risk for infection among short-term visitors. We retrospectively surveyed 4,000 persons who arrived in Hawaii during the peak of the 2001-2002 dengue outbreak and collected follow-up serologic test results for those reporting denguelike illness. Of 3,064 visitors who responded, 94 (3%) experienced a denguelike illness either during their trip or within 14 days of departure; 34 of these persons were seen by a physician, and 2 were hospitalized. Twenty-seven visitors with denguelike illness provided a serum specimen; all specimens were negative for anti-dengue immunoglobulin G antibodies. The point estimate of dengue incidence was zero infections per 358 person-days of exposure with an upper 95% confidence limit of 3.0 cases per person-year. Thus, the risk for dengue infection for visitors to Hawaii during the outbreak was low.
• Subjects:
  Dengue Disease Outbreaks Humans Research Time Factors Travel
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 11(5):750-756.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U50/CCU912395/CC/ODCDC CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  Hawaii
• Location:
  Oceania
• Volume:
  11
• Issue:
  5
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:73968a5f54b5fd0763028bd213c11e4b8ab5a52766bd0772de8775394c18c56a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/15749/cdc_15749_DS1.pdf
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