Reemergence of Dengue in Cuba: A 1997 Epidemic in Santiago de Cuba
Gustavo Kouría b✉, María Guadalupe Guzmánc, Luis Valdésd, Isabel Carboneld, Delfina del Rosarioa, Susana Vázqueza, José Lafertéa, Jorge Delgadoe, María V. Cabrerad
- aInstituto de Medicina Tropical "Pedro Kourí" (IPK), Marianao, Havana, Cuba
- bInstituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro Kouri, Marianao, Havana, Cuba
- cWHO/PAHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Viral Diseases, Havana, Cuba
- dProvincial Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
- eMinistry of Public Health, Cuba
- ✉Corresponding author
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Abstract
After 15 years of absence, dengue reemerged in the municipality of Santiago de Cuba because of increasing migration to the area by people from disease-endemic regions, a high level of vector infestation, and the breakdown of eradication measures. The 1997 epidemic was detected early through an active surveillance system. Of 2,946 laboratory-confirmed cases, 205 were dengue hemorrhagic fever, and 12 were fatal. No deaths were reported in persons under 16 years of age. Now the epidemic is fully controlled.