Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2023)

Dengue Outbreak Response during COVID-19 Pandemic, Key Largo, Florida, USA, 2020

  • Devin Rowe,
  • Catherine McDermott,
  • Ysla Veliz,
  • Alison Kerr,
  • Mark Whiteside,
  • Mikki Coss,
  • Chad Huff,
  • Andrea Leal,
  • Edgar Kopp,
  • Alexis LaCrue,
  • Lea A. Heberlein,
  • Laura E. Adams,
  • Gilberto A. Santiago,
  • Jorge L. Munoz-Jordan,
  • Gabriela Paz-Bailey,
  • Andrea M. Morrison

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2908.221856
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 8
pp. 1643 – 1647

Abstract

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We report a dengue outbreak in Key Largo, Florida, USA, from February through August 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Successful community engagement resulted in 61% of case-patients self-reporting. We also describe COVID-19 pandemic effects on the dengue outbreak investigation and the need to increase clinician awareness of dengue testing recommendations.

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