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. 2023 Apr 5;30(2):taac139.
doi: 10.1093/jtm/taac139.

Dengue outbreak amongst travellers returning from Cuba-GeoSentinel surveillance network, January-September 2022

Marta Díaz-Menéndez  1 , Kristina M Angelo  2 , Rosa de Miguel Buckley  1 , Emmanuel Bottieau  3 , Ralph Huits  4 , Martin P Grobusch  5 , Federico Giovanni Gobbi  4 , Hilmir Asgeirsson  6   7 , Alexandre Duvignaud  8 , Francesca F Norman  9 , Emilie Javelle  10 , Loïc Epelboin  11 , Camilla Rothe  12 , Francois Chappuis  13 , Gabriela Equihua Martinez  14 , Corneliu Popescu  15   16 , Daniel Camprubí-Ferrer  17 , Israel Molina  18 , Silvia Odolini  19 , Sapha Barkati  20 , Susan Kuhn  21 , Stephen Vaughan  21 , Anne McCarthy  22 , Mar Lago  1 , Michael D Libman  20 , Davidson H Hamer  23
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Dengue outbreak amongst travellers returning from Cuba-GeoSentinel surveillance network, January-September 2022

Marta Díaz-Menéndez et al. J Travel Med. .

Abstract

Increasing numbers of travellers returning from Cuba with dengue virus infection were reported to the GeoSentinel Network from June to September 2022, reflecting an ongoing local outbreak. This report demonstrates the importance of travellers as sentinels of arboviral outbreaks and highlights the need for early identification of travel-related dengue.

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Figure 1.
Number of patients with uncomplicated and complicated dengue acquired in Cuba by month of illness onset, reported to GeoSentinel, 1 January–20 September 2022 (N = 83)
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Number of confirmed and probable dengue cases acquired in Cuba reported to GeoSentinel* by year in the context of the annual number of tourist arrivals to Cuba$ and reported number of DENV cases in Cuba reported to PAHO§, 2014–2022. DENV = dengue virus, PAHO = Pan American Health Organization, *Reported through 20 September 2022, $Reported to the World Bank at: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.ARVL?locations=CU and Trading Economics https://tradingeconomics.com/cuba/tourist-arrivalsthroughJuly2022, §Reported to PAHO through epidemiological week 26 (26 June–2 July), 2022
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