Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2018)

Two Cases of Dengue Fever Imported from Egypt to Russia, 2017

  • Muhammad A. Saifullin,
  • Victor P. Laritchev,
  • Yana E. Grigorieva,
  • Nadezhda N. Zvereva,
  • Anna M. Domkina,
  • Ruslan F. Saifullin,
  • Marina V. Bazarova,
  • Yulia A. Akinshina,
  • Ludmila S. Karan,
  • Aleksandr M. Butenko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2404.172131
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 4
pp. 813 – 814

Abstract

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In 2017, two cases of dengue fever were imported from Hurghada, Egypt, where dengue fever was not considered endemic, to Moscow. These cases show how emergence of dengue fever in popular resort regions on the coast of the Red Sea can spread infection to countries where it is not endemic.

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