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Mosquito-borne Diseases Dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya in the United States

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Image: Dengue rates in the United States, 1930 to 2020. Is the spread of infectious disease mosquitoes to non-tropical countries a recent phenomenon? How are epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists monitoring and predicting the spread and risk ? Image: West Nile Fever World Outbreak Map, 1955 to 2020.

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Chagas Disease

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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). 63-68, 2020.

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Yellow Fever: Past and Present

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[Online] (10)” Yellow Fever Vaccine Recommendations “, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Vector-Borne Diseases (DVBD), 2021. Online] (11) J. Staples, A. Barrett, A. Wilder-Smith and J. Online] (13) K.