Dengue uptick for the Cook Islands in January

17 February 2020

Suspected dengue fever cases increased from the six reported in December to 11 in January and all but four of the 137 confirmed and probable cases registered since late Feb 2019 have been on Raratonga. A Pacific Community post on Feb 10 reported a single dengue fever case (DENV-1) in a traveller arriving in New Zealand from the Cook Islands in the first week of this month. Updates were also given on the dengue outbreaks in the Marshall Islands (now more than 2,500 cases and three dengue-related deaths), Palau and French Polynesia. Read more.

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