{"id":35065,"date":"2024-06-26T23:44:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T03:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=35065"},"modified":"2024-06-26T23:44:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T03:44:33","slug":"cdc-issues-dengue-fever-alert-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=35065","title":{"rendered":"CDC issues dengue fever alert in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ap16217672119108-b7aa70.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"176\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">This year, the incidence of dengue fever globally has been the highest on record, as countries report increasingly hot temperatures \u2014 ideal for mosquitoes that spread dengue to hatch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/cdc-warns-increased-dengue-fever-risk-us-rcna158851\">CDC issues dengue fever alert in the U.S.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p>fta, for context 2241 in 2024 (~1\/2 over) vs. 3036 in 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 2,241 cases have been reported so far this year in the U.S., including 1,498 cases in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, where a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/dengue-fever-outbreak-puerto-rico-creates-public-health-emergency-rcna145470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">public health emergency was declared in March<\/a>&nbsp;after cases&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salud.pr.gov\/menuInst\/download\/1833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exceeded historical figures<\/a>. Most of the cases reported in states are travel-related, according to the CDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/dengue\/data-research\/facts-stats\/historic-data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported 3,036 dengue cases<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/dengue\/data-research\/facts-stats\/historic-data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;last year<\/a>&nbsp;in the U.S. and its territories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the incidence of dengue fever globally has been the highest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[657,656,21,57],"class_list":["post-35065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-dengue","tag-mosquitos","tag-uh-oh","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35068,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35065\/revisions\/35068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}