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High risk of dengue type 2 outbreak in French Polynesia, 2017
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsMaite Aubrymaubry ilm.pf
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Citation style for this article: . High risk of dengue type 2 outbreak in French Polynesia, 2017. Euro Surveill. 2017;22(14):pii=30505. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.14.30505 Received: 20 Mar 2017; Accepted: 06 Apr 2017
Abstract
In French Polynesia, the four serotypes of dengue virus (DENV-1 to -4) have caused 14 epidemics since the mid-1940s. From the end of 2016, an increasing number of Pacific Island Countries and Territories have reported DENV-2 outbreaks and in February 2017, DENV-2 infection was detected in French Polynesia in three travellers from Vanuatu. As DENV-2 has not been circulating in French Polynesia since December 2000, there is high risk for an outbreak to occur.
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