Detection on four continents of dengue fever cases related to an ongoing outbreak in Luanda, Angola, March to May 2013

E Schwartz; E Meltzer; M Mendelson; A Tooke; F Steiner; P Gautret; B Friedrich-Jaenicke; M Libman; H Bin; A Wilder-Smith; D J Gubler; D O Freedman; P Parola

doi:10.2807/ese.18.21.20488-en

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Detection on four continents of dengue fever cases related to an ongoing outbreak in Luanda, Angola, March to May 2013
E Schwartz¹ , E Meltzer¹ , M Mendelson² , A Tooke³ , F Steiner⁴ , P Gautret^5,6 , B Friedrich-Jaenicke⁴ , M Libman⁷ , H Bin⁸ , A Wilder-Smith⁹ , D J Gubler¹⁰ , D O Freedman¹¹ , P Parola^5,6
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Affiliations: ¹ Center for Geographic Medicine and Department of Medicine C the Sheba medical center, Tel Hashomer & Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel ² Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa ³ Department of Medicine, 2 Military Hospital, Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa ⁴ Institut für Tropenmedizin und Internationale Gesundheit Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany ⁵ Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille, CHU Nord, Pôle Infectieux, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France ⁶ Aix Marseille Université, Unité de Recherche en Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France ⁷ J.D. MacLean Centre for Tropical Medicine, McGill University Health Centre Montreal, Quebec Canada ⁸ The Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Tel Hashomer Israel ⁹ Institute of Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Germany ¹⁰ Program on Emerging Infectious Diseases- Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore ¹¹ University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

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Citation style for this article: Schwartz E, Meltzer E, Mendelson M, Tooke A, Steiner F, Gautret P, Friedrich-Jaenicke B, Libman M, Bin H, Wilder-Smith A, Gubler D J, Freedman D O, Parola P. Detection on four continents of dengue fever cases related to an ongoing outbreak in Luanda, Angola, March to May 2013 . Euro Surveill. 2013;18(21):pii=20488. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.18.21.20488-en Received: 14 May 2013

Abstract

In April 2013, ten cases of dengue fever in travellers returning from Luanda, Angola, to five countries on four continents, were reported to the globally distributed GeoSentinel Surveillance network. Dengue virus serotype 1 was identified in two cases. The findings indicate that a major dengue outbreak is currently ongoing in Luanda. This report illustrates how cases from an emerging arboviral epidemic focus can spread internationally and highlights the risk of dissemination of a vector-borne disease into receptive areas