Dengue at 10-year high in Martinique

16 October 2020

On Oct 9, the ECDC gave notice that Martinique’s year-long dengue fever outbreak has reached a 10-year peak after the island registered 7,800 of the French Antilles’ 10,6023 suspected cases in the latest update. Guadeloupe has the next highest count in the update – 2,430 additional suspected cases – however all islands in the group are said to be in an epidemic phase. To the south, in Barbados, authorities are watchful of the outbreaks in the region but say that the slight increase in dengue cases this year is not ‘beyond what is expected’. Read More

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