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Euro Surveill. Letter to the editor: Ongoing outbreak of dengue type 1 in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, Portugal
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S K Ramchurn (
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Citation style for this article: Ramchurn SK, Goorah SS. Letter to the editor: Ongoing outbreak of dengue type 1 in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, Portugal. Euro Surveill. 2013;18(2):pii=20351. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=20351
Date of submission: 03 January 2013 <HR>
To the editor: We read with great interest the article by Sousa et al. [1] in Eurosurveillance on the recent Aedes aegypti-mediated dengue fever outbreak in the Portuguese autonomous small island of Madeira. An internationally coordinated response is indeed needed in view of the challenges posed not only by this outbreak, but also by outbreaks in other islands of similar size that share characteristics like a tourism-dependent economy and vulnerability to vector-borne diseases and where, in addition, the globally expanding Ae. albopictus may be the mosquito vector of dengue viruses [2]. In this letter, we wish to highlight some similarities with the situation in Mauritius.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 18, Issue 2, 10 January 2013
Letters
Letter to the editor: Ongoing outbreak of dengue type 1 in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, Portugal
Letters
Letter to the editor: Ongoing outbreak of dengue type 1 in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, Portugal
S K Ramchurn (
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius
- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius
Citation style for this article: Ramchurn SK, Goorah SS. Letter to the editor: Ongoing outbreak of dengue type 1 in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, Portugal. Euro Surveill. 2013;18(2):pii=20351. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=20351
Date of submission: 03 January 2013 <HR>
To the editor: We read with great interest the article by Sousa et al. [1] in Eurosurveillance on the recent Aedes aegypti-mediated dengue fever outbreak in the Portuguese autonomous small island of Madeira. An internationally coordinated response is indeed needed in view of the challenges posed not only by this outbreak, but also by outbreaks in other islands of similar size that share characteristics like a tourism-dependent economy and vulnerability to vector-borne diseases and where, in addition, the globally expanding Ae. albopictus may be the mosquito vector of dengue viruses [2]. In this letter, we wish to highlight some similarities with the situation in Mauritius.
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