Increased potential for dengue infection in travelers returning from international and selected domestic areas

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Sunday, July 25, 2010, 22:35 EDT (10:35 PM EDT)
  
  CDCHAN-00315-2010-07-25-ADV-N
  
  Dengue virus transmission has been increasing to epidemic levels in many parts of the tropics and subtropics. Travelers to these areas are at risk of acquiring dengue virus and developing dengue fever (DF) or the severe form of the disease, dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) strongly advises that health care providers in the United States should: 1) consider DF and DHF when evaluating patients returning from dengue-affected areas--both domestic and abroad--who present with an acute febrile illness within two weeks of their return, 2) submit serum specimens for appropriate laboratory testing, and 3) report all presumptive and confirmed cases of DF and DHF to their local or state health department.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Dengue Dengue/diagnosis Severe Dengue Severe Dengue/diagnosis Travel
• Source:
  HAN ; 315
• Series:
  Health Alert Network
• Document Type:
  HAN Health Advisory
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  3 unnumbered pages
• Issue:
  315
• Collection(s):
  Health Alert Network (HAN)
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