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Presence
of DEN-3 in the Americas, 1994-2007
| One reason for the increase in dengue incidence seen in 1995
was the detection of the arrival and the transmission of DEN-3—which
had not been in the Americas for 20 years. In 1994, DEN-3 was
first detected in the southern part of Central America in Panama,
Nicaragua and Costa Rica. By 1995, it had spread northward and
was detected up to northern Mexico near the Texas border, in
Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. In 1997, DEN-3 was detected
in Belize and Guyana, in 1998 it was detected in several Caribbean
islands: Puerto Rico, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic (on the
island of Hispaniola), Barbados, and St. Christopher/Nevis.
In 1999 this serotype was detected in French Guiana and in 2000
in Cuba, and in Brazil. No cases of DENV 3 have been reported in Chile,
Uruguay and Haiti as of 2007. |
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