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Polish hospital diagnoses dengue in two teenagers after tropical travel
21.02.2026 18:30
Doctors at the St. John Paul II Specialised Hospital in Kraków, southern Poland, have diagnosed dengue fever in two teenage patients who returned from trips to tropical countries and were admitted with high fever.
The hospital said the cases were identified in its Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Paediatric Hepatology ward thanks to “clinical vigilance” and rapid specialist testing.
Ward head Dr. Anna Rzucidło-Hymczak told Poland's PAP news agency this week that the infections were detected in two separate cases over the past three weeks, first in a teenage girl who has since been discharged, and then in a teenage boy who remained in hospital.
Both patients were experiencing dengue for the first time and their illness was relatively mild, resembling influenza, Rzucidło-Hymczak said, adding that they still required hospital care...
Polish hospital diagnoses dengue in two teenagers after tropical travel
21.02.2026 18:30
Doctors at the St. John Paul II Specialised Hospital in Kraków, southern Poland, have diagnosed dengue fever in two teenage patients who returned from trips to tropical countries and were admitted with high fever.
The hospital said the cases were identified in its Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Paediatric Hepatology ward thanks to “clinical vigilance” and rapid specialist testing.
Ward head Dr. Anna Rzucidło-Hymczak told Poland's PAP news agency this week that the infections were detected in two separate cases over the past three weeks, first in a teenage girl who has since been discharged, and then in a teenage boy who remained in hospital.
Both patients were experiencing dengue for the first time and their illness was relatively mild, resembling influenza, Rzucidło-Hymczak said, adding that they still required hospital care...