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However, a dengue vaccine is available in the U.S. and is FDA approved for children between ages 9 and 16 who have a laboratory-confirmed previous dengue virus infection and who live in areas ...
An Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District worker begins the screening process for the presence of diseases like West Nile virus, Zika virus, Dengue fever or yellow fever at the agency ...
Another virus spread by mosquitoes, Eastern equine encephalitis, is less widespread but deadlier. This month, a 41-year-old New Hampshire man without any underlying medical problems died of EEE.
Dengue virus has four different serotypes, each of which are antigenically related but have limited cross-immunity to reinfection. [55] Although dengue fever has a global incidence of 50–100 million cases, only several hundreds of thousands of these cases are life-threatening.
"And so, as there are more dengue infections in other places in the world [and] people who are traveling in and out of L.A. County, there's an increased risk that someone may bring the virus back ...
Summer mean mosquitoes will be out in force, with an added threat of illnesses like West Nile virus and possibly Dengue fever. Here's all to know. Mosquito menace: West Nile, Dengue fever are threats.
When a mosquito carrying a virus or parasite bites a person, it can pass on the microbe. The most common mosquito-borne diseases in the U.S. are West Nile, malaria, and eastern equine encephalitis.
In Puerto Rico, at least 1,498 people have caught dengue from mosquitoes, prompting the local government to declare a public health emergency. And 745 U.S. travelers have been infected, the CDC notes.