...hmm... leporsy and now this. The 'tropics' are a breeding ground this year for diseases. Let's keep allowing everybody and their brother in without health screening.
Dengue virus spreads across Florida counties, health officials sayFlorida health officials have placed Broward County under a mosquito-borne illness alert this month as dengue virus cases spread.
Broward County – home to Fort Lauderdale – joins Miami-Dade County as the illness continues to spread.
The Florida Department of Health reported two cases of locally acquired dengue in Broward County in its July 30-Aug. 5 arbovirus surveillance report.
There have been 10 cases of locally acquired dengue reported in the Sunshine State this year, with most in Miami-Dade County. The majority of the 10 were reported in July...........
.............What to know about the tropical infectious disease...........
Dengue fever is caused by four viruses: dengue virus 1, 2, 3, and 4.
It is spread primarily by the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which bites generally during the day, per the CDC.
A person can get infected as many as four times because one virus strain only confers immunity against that specific serotype; people are at higher risk for a life-threatening condition called dengue hemorrhagic fever when they are infected twice, per the CDC.
About one in four people with dengue fever become sick, which can be either a mild or severe illness; but some 40,000 die from severe disease every year, according to the CDC.............
The fever phase, named after its most common symptom, is characterized by severe joint pain and headaches, but most patients recover without complications, Dr. David O. Freedman, professor emeritus of infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told Fox News Digital...............
https://www.foxnews.com/health/dengue-virus-spreads-florida-counties-health-officialshttps://www.foxnews.com/health/dengue-fever-cases-could-reach-near-record-highs-this-yea-what-know-tropical-infectious-disease
