Florida Issues Dengue Fever Alert; CDC Issues Its Own Health Advisory
“Experts” are tying the rise in dengue fever infections to “climate change”
Back in 2016, I reported that cases of dengue fever were being reported in Florida and Hawaii. Dengue (break-bone fever) is a viral infection that spreads from mosquitoes to people and is more common in tropical and subtropical climates. It has not been common for Americans to become infected unless they were traveling abroad.
Now, just in time for mosquito season, Florida health officials are issuing a dengue fever alert, after a second case of a locally-obtained infection was reported in the Keys and several more reported in Miami-Dade .
The two confirmed dengue cases in the Keys were locally acquired, which means the people didn’t get sick while traveling. Miami-Dade County has also reported locally acquired dengue cases this year.
It takes two cases for an alert to be issued.
In Broward Mosquito control is using drones to get the pests in hard to reach places. They’re spreading larvicide granules, killing mosquitos before they hatch.
“We are trying to be proactive and trying to reduce the mass as much as possible the adult mosquito population by preventing the larva to turn into adult mosquito,” said Adriana Toro with Broward Mosquito Control.
This is especially important as 2 cases of Dengue Fever have been reported in Key West. Locally there are 104 in Miami-Dade this year, those are travel related with 6 contracted locally. In Broward there are 30 – all travel related.
“We work closely with CDC. And when they have reports of Dengue cases we work together with them we spray those areas in more, more intensely,” Toro said.
But Floridians aren’t the only Americans at an increased risk. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued a health advisor warning clinicians, health authorities, and the public about an increased risk for dengue virus infections in this country.
In the first six months of 2024, countries in the Americas have reported more than 9.7 million dengue cases, twice as many as in all of 2023, exceeding the highest number ever recorded in a single year, the CDC said in a health advisory. Puerto Rico declared a public health emergency because of the unusually high number of cases reported in the winter and spring, the dry season, when dengue cases are typically low.
Since January, 745 dengue cases have been identified among U.S. travelers who became infected abroad, the agency said. Dengue cases typically increase during the warmest months that are yet to come. Last year, there were 1,829 travel-associated cases in the United States.
Of course, the “experts” are tying the rise in dengue fever infections to “climate change”.
Why the spike? Many nations have reported increasingly hot temperatures, which create ideal breeding conditions for the mosquitoes that spread dengue.
“Dengue transmission peaks during the warmer and wetter months in many tropical and subtropical regions,” the CDC noted in its advisory. “Dengue cases are likely to increase as global temperatures increase.”
Dengue was historically known as ‘breakbone fever’ in the 1700s because of the severe pain it can cause in the muscles and the joints, among other symptoms.
Common signs of a dengue infection typically manifest as flu like symptoms.
Typically, patients suffer a fever that lasts for between two and seven days — this may peak, reduce and then peak again during this time.
During the first days, this may be accompanied by facial redness.
Other common symptoms at this stage include a severe headache, pain behind the eyes, muscle and joint pain — giving the disease its bone-breaker’ moniker — nausea and vomiting and swollen glands.
Europe is also seeing an uptick in dengue infections.
Interestingly, a new vaccine for dengue received prequalification from the World Health Organization (WHO) in May of this year.
TAK-003 is the second dengue vaccine to be prequalified by WHO. Developed by Takeda, it is a live-attenuated vaccine containing weakened versions of the four serotypes of the virus that cause dengue.
WHO recommends the use of TAK-003 in children aged 6–16 years in settings with high dengue burden and transmission intensity. The vaccine should be administered in a 2-dose schedule with a 3-month interval between doses.
“The prequalification of TAK-003 is an important step in the expansion of global access to dengue vaccines, as it is now eligible for procurement by UN agencies including UNICEF and PAHO,” said Dr Rogerio Gaspar, WHO Director for Regulation and Prequalification. “With only two dengue vaccines to date prequalified, we look forward to more vaccine developers coming forward for assessment, so that we can ensure vaccines reach all communities who need it.”
Given that dengue is a mosquito-borne disease and infections are likely to subside in the autumn, this is likely not an election-impacting pathogen. That’s some good news.
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What evidence is there that the dengue vaccines being lined up by the WHO will do any good?
I recently read that Ivermectin may be an effective treatment. I’ll have to stop by Tractor Supply before heading to FL.
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Good news. Florida has Tractor Supply.
Also, Rural King, which is a cross between Tractor Supply and Buc-ees.
I’ll have to stop by Tractor Supply before heading to FL.
Why? Did Target run out of pride flags?
I contracted Dengue in 1995. Mosquito bites in Antigua waiting for a prop plane to take us to Montserrat. Red spots on my arms, fever and TERRIBLE joint pain in my neck and back(hence, breakbone fever) I went to a local doc and got pain meds, afterwards I was ok, but it was painful at first. It can be much worse, even hemorrhagic. I’ve never been with lots of OFF ever since. Fl. Has got to step up their spraying efforts.
Without lots of OFF 😱
During Operation Restore Hope in Somalia in the early 90s, hundreds of US service members contracted Dengue, including me. It was the largest outbreak of a reasonably serious illness on a deployment I’ve ever been a part of. I didn’t get it too bad. But others didn’t fare nearly as well. I think we had close to 300 who were hospitalized for some period of time. Mosquitos are no bueno.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
— H.L. Mencken
I don’t think that applies in this instance. Mosquito-borne disease is a predictable outcome of environmentalists. We have plenty of mosquito abatement techniques. But, environmentalists suppress/prevent the use of these techniques because they might ‘damage the environment.’ Meanwhile, the mosquito continues to be the single most dangerous living creature to humans on the entire planet. Dengue fever isn’t a hobgoblin. It’s a cautionary tale.
DDT solves it, just like it solves malaria.
More human misery based on propaganda and false science. Imagine the lives that could’ve been saved had DDT not been banned. Human life doesn’t matter to the collective. See: CAFE standards.
We should keep this in mind when indignantly asking “why the FDA took 50 years to ban brominated vegetable oils (BVOs).” Was it fraud — was the presence of the ingredient hidden off the labels? No, its presence was freely touted. Do you consider yourself so stupid that you would drink a beverage labeled as containing poison? Ah, but most Americans are way stupider than you, right? Which is why a government mommy is desperately needed to keep them breathing. One that can just use force to ban BVOs, DDT, Ivermectin (but only where it competes with Pfizer), hexachlorophene, marijuana, absinthe, cyclamates, and the Suzuki Sidekick, in order to give us a brave new moron-safe world.
How did I forget Freon? The banning of which was absolutely necessary to close the “ozone hole”… which never did close, because turns out its a natural phenomenon tied to “changes in atmospheric dynamics”.
I miss the sidekick. We rented a right hand drive one in Montserrat. The British version was called “Rhino” it was fun with the top down on mountain switchback roads, especially with the stick shift on the wrong side.
You can still buy this car (or its direct descendant) pretty much everywhere in western civilization EXCEPT the USA. Canada, even.
The specter of Rachel Carson is here!!
My dad was among the troops that oversaw the liberation of Dachau. He said that in order to leave the camp confines everyone had to cover themselves in DDT powder to de-louse. He lived to 86.
This.
Philadelphia once had a yellow fever outbreak a few hundred years ago.
It has been years since I had reason to read up on it, there were 4 strains identified. All made you feel lousy and some could give a prolonged recovery time of months of fatigue and depression.
One subtype runs the risk of giving a hemorrhagic fever (think Ebola, but not contagious person to person) upon repeat infection with that strain.- that would be an interesting issue in making a vaccine.
fjb has already stated we must make mail-in voting as normal as falling up the stairs
“Experts” are tying the rise in dengue fever infections to “climate change”
But of course – is there nothing which can’t be tied to “climate change”?
Only if you spell “climate change” as “illegal aliens.”
I’ve thrown some pocket money into a startup that plans to make digital leper bells. It’s a sure thing, the next rot.com boom.
We don’t know what became of Denbe after the Blacklist ended
Haven’t heard a peep out of Spader either… 🙂
Florida has credibility. CDC? NONE. At least Joe Isuzu was funny. CDC is malicious, pernicious and malignant.
I’d bet this increase in cases is caused by insects being brought in by illegal aliens, not “climate change”, just like pretty much every other outbreak of third-world diseases we’re seeing now.
Like Malaria, Dengue fever has existed in the US for centuries, at least. In the 19th and early 20th century, there were significant outbreaks of Dengue in southern states, particularly in Florida, Louisiana & the Coastal Carolinas. Then we discovered DDT and Malaria and Dengue fever stopped being a thing. If you allow the mosquito population to explode, Dengue and Malaria will be things once again.