Public health officials continue to emphasize protection against mosquitoes and enhanced surveillance in affected neighborhoods.
from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. The affected individual, a resident of the Panorama City neighborhood, had no history of travel to endemic areas, and this most recent case is not related to the previous casesThe local transmission of dengue in Los Angeles County is"unprecedented," said Muntu Davis, MD, Los Angeles County health officer, in the press release.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , approximately one quarter of dengue infections are symptomatic. Signs of progression to severe disease include abdominal pain or tenderness, persistent vomiting, clinical fluid accumulation, mucosal bleeding, lethargy or restlessness, and liver enlargement.
Asked what might be driving the recent cases,"I think it is a combination of escalating intensity of dengue transmission in many endemic areas outside the US, which creates a scenario of more travelers arriving in the US with active dengue, and increased numbers of mosquitoes locally able to transmit the virus," Lawler toldDengue is very common in the Caribbean, Central and South America, Southeast Asia, and all the tropics, which are all places with a high travel volume to the United...
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