2 AUGUST 1998. PUERTO RICO:
DISEASE (DENGUE) "[These came in response to our posting the above Request
For Information. Obviously, we are not receiving official information about
this epidemic, else we would have posted it. We have heard the epidemic
is quite a large one; 4-5 times the number of cases usually seen at this
time of year and 2-3 times the 1994-1995 epidemic (at this part of the
epidemic curve). In February we posted the following message (Dengue-3
- Puerto Rico 980211072625), in part: "According to the Puerto Rico Secretary
of Health, an elderly San Juan man has been diagnosed with dengue 3 virus
infection, a virus not detected in Puerto Rico since the 1970s. Dengue
3 virus had been absent from the Americas from 1977 until 1994, when it
reappeared in Nicaragua and Panama. If the current epidemic is due to dengue
3 virus, this virus has been smoldering for six months. - Mod.CHC]" --
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