3 JUNE 1998. SAIPAN: DISEASE (DENGUE)
"We had a second clinical case which has also been serologically confirmed. In conducting a household survey there are three family members (husband, mother-in-law, and 1 daughter) all with anti-dengue IgG. Their IgM was also elevated but not to the reference threshold of the laboratory. Three other children in the household all had high anti-dengue IgM and IgG. The husband, mother-in-law, and the daughter all returned from a trip to the State of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia on February 11, 1998. The index case and the other three children had not traveled off-island. They represent local transmission. Only one of the children had been clinically ill, with vomiting and hematemesis."--Jon B. Bruss VIA Dr. Tom Kiedrzynski tomk@spc.org.nc VIA ProMED http://www.healthnet.org/programs/promed.html.
 
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