{"id":133,"date":"2024-11-02T18:10:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T22:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/i-cubed\/?p=133"},"modified":"2024-11-02T18:12:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T22:12:29","slug":"over-6800-dengue-cases-reported-to-cdc-for-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/i-cubed\/over-6800-dengue-cases-reported-to-cdc-for-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 6,800 dengue cases reported to CDC for 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On October 31, 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/2-locally-acquired-dengue-cases-reported-los-angeles\/story?id=115346777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ABC News<\/a> highlighted the record-high numbers of dengue cases reported so far in 2024, including the report of <a href=\"http:\/\/publichealth.lacounty.gov\/acd\/VectorDengue.htm#current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">11 cases of dengue acquired in Los Angeles county<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/dengue\/data-research\/facts-stats\/current-data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CDC data for 2024<\/a> show over 6,800 dengue cases reported through October 12, 2024, for the US and territories. Of these, more than 4,400 were locally-acquired and more than 2,300 were associated with travel. This number of travel-associated cases is higher than reported in any year since dengue became a nationally-notifiable disease in 2010, and reflects the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecdc.europa.eu\/en\/dengue-monthly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">global situation<\/a> for dengue this year. Most of the locally-acquired cases of dengue for 2024 have been reported from Puerto Rico (over 4,200). Although mosquitoes that can transmit dengue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mosquitoes\/php\/toolkit\/potential-range-of-aedes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">can be found in many areas in the continental US<\/a>, the risk of local transmission of dengue remains low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 31, 2024, ABC News highlighted the record-high numbers of dengue cases reported so far in 2024, including the report of 11 cases of dengue acquired in Los Angeles county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":884,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dengue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/i-cubed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/i-cubed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/i-cubed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/i-cubed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/i-cubed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/i-cubed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/i-cubed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/i-cubed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/i-cubed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/i-cubed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}