USA, State of New York, Suffolk County , !!! WARNING !!! Suffolk County Commissioner of Health Services James Tomarken announced Nov. 20 that his department had confirmed a case of locally acquired dengue in his county. The patient, a 50-year-old man, was hospitalized with dengue symptoms in Sept. and has now recovered. This is believed to be the first locally acquired dengue illness in New York State. He had no history of travel outside the region. The dengue virus is carried by mosquitoes. It is believed that the patient was bitten by an Asian Tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus. This species was first discovered in the continental United States in 1985, in Texas, and has been spreading northward since that time. In 2010, a Cornell mosquito expert predicted that the first dengue case in New York could originate with the Asian Tiger mosquito. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) track the two types of illness due to a dengue infection, dengue fever and the far more serious dengue hemorrhagic fever. As of Nov. 9, the CDC had received reports of 445 cases of dengue fever and 2 cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever thus far in 2013. New York City has reported the largest number, 99 cases.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:54:38 +0000
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