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Article: Imported Dengue in Buenos Aires, Argentina.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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To the Editor: After more than 70 years without reports of cases, an outbreak of dengue (type 2) occurred in the northwestern region of Argentina from January to May 1998; 818 cases of denguelike illness were reported (incidence rate: 45/10,000 inhabitants) (1). The outbreak was restricted to a few cities of the Chaco Salteno Region.
The last dengue epidemic in Argentina (in 1926) (2) affected the Mesopotamia Region and Rosario City. An earlier widely distributed epidemic in 1916 occurred in the coastal region along the Uruguay River (Corrientes and Entre Rios provinces), reached Parana City (along the Parana River), and affected approximately 50% of the city's ...