Over 200 suspected dengue fever cases reported
Quoting Radio New Zealand � 27 April 2019
�Over two hundred cases of suspected dengue fever have been reported in Vanuatu this year.
�Relief Web reports that between the 8th and 16th of April, 42 suspected dengue cases were reported in the capital Port Vila and Luganville.
�The surge in suspected cases has been linked in part to travel between various Pacific Islands territories.
�One of the Vila reports was an imported case from a traveller coming from Solomon Islands in January.
�Another confirmed case detected in Luganville has travel history to New Caledonia.
�The DENV-2 serotype of dengue has been circulating in Vanuatu for the last 2 years.�
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