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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.
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-bornedisease transmission is exceedingly rare in the United States, with 28 cases documented between 1955 and 2015 (13). 63-68, 2020.
The numbers though modest compared to dengue and malaria are still striking. There were 18.7 million chikungunya cases in 110 countries during that decade, which resulted in 1.95 million DALYs, $2.8 billion in direct costs and $47.1 billion indirect costs.
Between 2019 and 2020 there were at least 5 cases of Plague in China linked to eating marmot meat and a few others of unknown origin. In 2009, University of Chicago scientist Malcolm Casadaban contracted Plague while conducting vaccine research and unfortunately died. Online] [2] World Health Organization, “ Plague ”. 357-370, 2019.
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