{"id":11797,"date":"2026-04-01T20:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11797"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:03:29","slug":"travel-alert-issued-for-potentially-fatal-breakbone-fever-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/04\/01\/travel-alert-issued-for-potentially-fatal-breakbone-fever-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel alert issued for potentially fatal \u2018breakbone fever\u2019: What you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2026\/03\/travel-alert-issued-for-potentially-fatal-breakbone-fever-what-you-need-to-know.html\">AL.com<\/a> The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/travel\/notices\/level1\/dengue-global\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Centers for Disease Control has issued a travel alert, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Centers for Disease Control has issued a travel alert&nbsp;<\/a>about a \u201chigher-than-usual\u201d number of cases of a potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CDC Level 1 notice mentions 16 countries with cases of dengue, also known as \u201cbreakbone fever.\u201d The countries are Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Guyana, Mail, Mauritania, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Timor-Leste, Cook Islands, New Caledonia, Samoa and Vietnam. Travelers to these countries are urged to \u201cpractice usual precautions,\u201d but be aware of the rise of cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the CDC, most dengue cases in the continental U.S. occur in travelers but local spread is possible. Internationally, millions are infected each year by Aedes mosquito bites, and travelers to areas with higher case numbers are at increased risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2026\/03\/travel-alert-issued-for-potentially-fatal-breakbone-fever-what-you-need-to-know.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AL.com The&nbsp;Centers for Disease Control has issued a travel alert&nbsp;about a \u201chigher-than-usual\u201d number of cases of a potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease. The CDC Level 1 notice mentions 16 countries with cases of dengue, also known as \u201cbreakbone fever.\u201d The countries are Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Guyana, Mail, Mauritania, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Timor-Leste, Cook Islands, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11798,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11797\/revisions\/11798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}