After years of planning, a vaccine-preventable disease impact may soon be curtailed in Puerto Rico. Dengue viruses have been impacting residents for decades.
Approximately 95% of locally acquired dengue cases in the U.S. have occurred in Puerto Rico.
The U.S. CDC says dengue infection mortality ranges are less than 1% if treated appropriately but can reach 15% if untreated.
Puerto Rico's Department of Health Arboviral Disease Report indicates that 574 confirmed, 261 related hospitalizations, 73 severe cases, and two dengue deaths were reported in 2021.
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