JUNE 10, 2022

Severe Dengue Uncommon Among Returning Travelers

By Ethan Covey

Travelers returning from countries where dengue fever remains endemic rarely fall seriously ill with the disease, and so, may benefit from care that differs from more hands-on approaches defined in guidelines established by the World Health Organization, according to research presented at the 2022 European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (poster P0059).

“Dengue is a common infection among returning travelers in Europe,” said Emily Martyn,