Dengue has continued to have a banner year in 2024. We are writing to alert you to recent cases in a relatively new location.
On mid May 2024, three patients that were part of a group of Italian travelers returning from Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt were diagnosed with dengue (serotype 2) in Florence, Italy. They flew from Milan to Sharm El Sheikh on May 4 and returned to Italy on May 11. They developed symptoms between 11 and 16 May 2024. All presented post-travel with high fever , skin rash, and leukopenia at the Careggi University Hospital in Florence, Italy. All three patients were confirmed positive by serum RT-PCR for DENV-2.
Dengue has been reported from Egypt in 2023 including in German tourists returning from different locations in the Egypt mainland, including the Red Sea coast, mainly the Hurghada region. No cases have been reported in travelers returning from the very touristic location of Sharm El Sheikh in the Sinai peninsula although this is located relatively close to Hurghada.
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.5.2400042
We think that the information about the current circulation of DENV 2 in a very touristic location such as Sharm El Sheikh is important to share with travel medicine centers in order to increase the awareness of tourists going to Sharm and for health care workers managing people returning from this place. Day time insect bite precaution must be maximized and vaccination may be considered.
Communicated by GeoSentinel Affiliate Members, Lorenzo Zammarchi & Alessandro Bartoloni, University of Florence, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy
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Dengue has continued to have a banner year in 2024. We are writing to alert you to recent cases in a relatively new location.
On mid May 2024, three patients that were part of a group of Italian travelers returning from Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt were diagnosed with dengue (serotype 2) in Florence, Italy. They flew from Milan to Sharm El Sheikh on May 4 and returned to Italy on May 11. They developed symptoms between 11 and 16 May 2024. All presented post-travel with high fever , skin rash, and leukopenia at the Careggi University Hospital in Florence, Italy. All three patients were confirmed positive by serum RT-PCR for DENV-2.
Dengue has been reported from Egypt in 2023 including in German tourists returning from different locations in the Egypt mainland, including the Red Sea coast, mainly the Hurghada region. No cases have been reported in travelers returning from the very touristic location of Sharm El Sheikh in the Sinai peninsula although this is located relatively close to Hurghada.
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.5.2400042
We think that the information about the current circulation of DENV 2 in a very touristic location such as Sharm El Sheikh is important to share with travel medicine centers in order to increase the awareness of tourists going to Sharm and for health care workers managing people returning from this place. Day time insect bite precaution must be maximized and vaccination may be considered.
Communicated by GeoSentinel Affiliate Members, Lorenzo Zammarchi & Alessandro Bartoloni, University of Florence, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy