More than two dozen cases of locally acquired dengue fever have hit the resort town of Key West Florida in the past nine months, officials from the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Although not the first cases of home-grown dengue in the U.S., or even in Florida, the outbreak highlights the need for physician vigilance regarding this and other formerly exotic tropical diseases, the CDC said in the May 21 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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From Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 10 Number 1 Spring 2005…..
“Dengue fever is exceptionally rare in America, though
common in Ecuador, Peru, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh,
Malaysia, and Mexico. Recently there was a virulent outbreak
of dengue fever inWebb County, Texas, which borders Mexico.
Though dengue is usually not a fatal disease, dengue hemorrhagic
fever routinely kills.”