What geographic areas at high risk of acquiring dengue?

What geographic areas at high risk of acquiring dengue?

 

Dengue fever is common in tropical and subtropical regions. Outbreaks have occurred recently in the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Cuba and Central America. Cases have also been imported via tourists returning from regions where dengue widespread, including Tahiti, Singapore, South, Southeast, West Indies, India and South-East Asia Pacific (similar distribution to the regions of the world which are home to malaria and yellow fever). Dengue is now the leading cause of acute febrile illness in US travellers returning from the Caribbean, South America and Asia.

In 2011, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico and at the Venezuela reported a large number of cases of dengue fever. Paraguay has reported an outbreak of fever of dengue in 2011, the worst since 2007. Hospitals were overcrowded and patients had canceled elective surgeries because of the epidemic.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does that not from 1946 to 1980 report, has reported no cases of dengue in the continental zone of the United States. Since 1980, U.S. business locally purchased some along the border of Texas and the Mexico, temporarily associated with large outbreaks in the neighboring towns of Mexican have been confirmed.

 

An outbreak of dengue in Key West, Florida, 2009 showed that three patients who cannot travel outside the United States has contracted the virus. The following tests of the city of Key West has shown that up to 55 people living in the region has antibodies against dengue. In total, 28 people have been diagnosed with dengue fever in the outbreak.

Dengue is common in at least 100 countries in Asia, the Pacific, the Americas, Africa and the Caribbean. Thailand, Viet Nam, Singapore and the Malaysia have reported an increase in cases.

According to the CDC, there are about 100 million cases of dengue fever with several 100,000 cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever which require hospitalization each year. Almost 40% of the world's population lives in an endemic area of dengue. The World Health (who) Organization has estimated that 22,000 deaths occur every year, mostly in children.