Hawaii dengue outbreak tops 2001 outbreak
by Robert Herriman from Outbreak News Today on (#WR1C)
In 2001, Hawaii experienced an outbreak of dengue, which in all 122 laboratory-confirmed cases were identified through 2002 (92 on Maui, 26 on Oahu, and 4 on Kauai). Before 2001, autochthonous dengue infections had last been definitively reported in Hawaii in 1944. That number has been easily eclipsed by the current outbreak on the Big Island. The ["]
