Since the beginning of the year through April 16, Vanuatu health officials have reported a total of 216 suspected dengue cases reported including 18 confirmed cases.
In just the past week, 42 suspected dengue cases reported in Port Vila and Luganville and 4 cases were confirmed positive for dengue in Luganville only.
The DENV-2 serotype has been circulating in Vanuatu for the last 2 years. Since Nov. 2016, some 2000 suspected dengue cases, two thirds are under 25 years old, have been reported in Vanuatu.
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Dengue infects nearly 400 million people across more than 120 countries each year. Most survive with few or no symptoms, but more than two million annually develop what can be a dangerous dengue hemorrhagic fever, which kills more than 25,000 people each year.
Dengue viruses are arboviruses (arthropod-borne virus) that are transmitted primarily to humans through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito.
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