pacific/fever

Adequate monitoring of dengue activity can be achieved using a combination of mosquito vector surveillance, fever surveillance, sentinel clinicians and laboratory screening. An apparent increase in fever cases or clinically suspected DF should prompt a careful clinical and laboratory investigation.

Rickettsia philipii (type strain "Rickettsia 364D"), the etiologic agent of Pacific Coast tick fever (PCTF), is transmitted to people by the Pacific Coast tick, Dermacentor occidentalis. Following the first confirmed human case of PCTF in 2008, 13 additional human cases have been reported in

Scrub typhus is widely endemic in Asia. Man's behaviour and climatic changes greatly influenced the occurrence of the disease. Increasing prevalences of scrub typhus have been reported from some Asian countries and may coincide with the widespread use of beta-lactam antibiotics or to improve

Some 30 cases of tick-borne relapsing fever due to Borrelia are known to have occurred between 1965 and 1978 in the Pacific Northwest. This disease was found more frequently in young men with a history of wilderness exposure during the summer months. Recurrent fever was the most common symptom with

The growth of 50 children on a coral atoll has been studied during their first year of life. Initially the population median weight rose above the international norm, but later declined, resulting in a median weight at 12 months below this norm. Data on age of introduction of foods, diarrhoeal

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne pathogen that causes an acute febrile syndrome and severe, debilitating rheumatic disorders in humans that may persist for months. CHIKV's presence in Asia dates from at least 1954, but its epidemiological profile in the region remains poorly understood.