This 2003 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes albopictus mosquito acquiring a blood meal from a human host. Dengue, a tropical illness caused by a virus, is spread by Aedes mosquitos, a …Dengue fever, the world’s most common mosquito-spread disease, is spiking in the Americas, with 2,241 cases detected in the U.S. between Jan. 1 and Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week.
In the U.S. and associated territories, Puerto Rico has the most cases thus far in 2024 at 1,498. It has declared a dengue fever public health emergency. Sporadic local transmission of dengue is also found in Florida, Hawaii and Texas, and has been observed in California and Arizona the past two years, the CDC said.
Outside of Puerto Rico, other U.S. territories that have high rates of dengue infection include American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau.
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