UK Health Security

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The increasing number of cases of dengue and malaria that we are seeing at the moment in the UK are travel-related, so people have picked them up when visiting countries where mosquito-borne illnesses are transmitted. This has contributed to the spread of vector-borne diseases to areas where they were previously not present, including the UK.

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Gideon

MARCH 18, 2021

1007327 (2) A Fares A, “Factors influencing the seasonal patterns of infectious diseases”, Int J Prev Med, vol. Janson, “When Spring Fever Was a Real Disease”, Emergency Medicine News, vol. Online] (14) Meyerhoff, J, “ What is the global prevalence of Lyme disease? Available: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007327

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Gideon

APRIL 14, 2021

If you have a GIDEON account, click here to explore our Chagas disease outbreak map. An estimated 8 million people are currently infected with the disease(12). Vector-borne disease transmission is exceedingly rare in the United States, with 28 cases documented between 1955 and 2015 (13). 1225-1227, 2016.

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