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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 31(6), 1982, pp. 1222-1228
Copyright © 1982 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Reintroduction of Dengue Fever into the Continental United States

I. Dengue Surveillance in Texas, 1980*

Barry Hafkin, Jonathan E. Kaplan, Christie Reed, L. Bruce Elliott, Robert Fontaine, Gladys E. Sather AND Karl Kappus
Texas State Department of Health, Austin, Texas 78756, Viral Diseases Division, Center for Infectious Diseases (CID), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS), Atlanta, Georgia 30333, and Vector-Borne Diseases Division, CID, CDC, USDHHS, San Juan, 00936, Puerto Rico

Abstract. Two surveillance systems were initiated in Texas in 1980 to detect cases of dengue fever. Physicians throughout the state were requested to report cases of dengue (passive surveillance), and 27 out-patient facilities serving geographically and ethnically high risk populations were asked to report cases of dengue-like illness weekly (active surveillance). Additionally, two clinics participating in active surveillance submitted acute-phase blood specimens weekly for dengue virus isolation. Sixty-three cases of illness due to dengue type 1 infection (dates of onset 2 August–10 November) were documented by virus isolation or serologic testing; 52 of them (83%) occurred in counties adjacent to the Texas-Mexico border. Fifty-six patients (89%) were Hispanic; 46 (73%) were females. Twenty-seven patients (43%) had not traveled outside the U.S. before becoming ill. Since no clinically apparent outbreak of dengue was ever recognized by public health officials in Texas in 1980, the active surveillance system, which detected 56% of the cases, was largely responsible for this first documentation of dengue transmission in the continental U.S. since 1945. Use of a similar surveillance system in other Gulf Coast states should be considered when the risk of introduction of dengue is considered high.

Accepted for publication March 10, 1982.


* Address reprint requests to: Ms. Christie Reed, Division of Communicable Disease, Texas State Department of Health, 1100 West 49th Street, Austin, Texas 78756.




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