Category: disease

Real-life Contagion: Part 2

By Tyler M. Sharp, PhD Before we left off in Part 1 I had just gotten on a boat to visit a small atoll in the Marshall Islands affected by the dengue outbreak… A few days earlier we had identified a small cluster of cases on Arno, a small atoll about 30 miles from Majuro. I Read More >

December 30, 2011 by 6 Comments

Disease Investigation, General, response, Vectorborne

contagion, dengue fever, disease, Marshall Islands, mosquito, outbreak

Real-life Contagion: Governments unite to fight dengue outbreak in Marshall Islands

By Tyler M. Sharp, PhD The whole thing was straight out of a movie. An outbreak of dengue fever on a small island chain in the middle of the Pacific. A local government requesting assistance to control the outbreak. In the end, CDC, the US Department of Defense, the World Health Organization (WHO), USAID, local Read More >

December 22, 2011 by 5 Comments

Disease Investigation, General, Vectorborne

dengue, disease, EIS, fever, Marshall Islands, mosquito