Volume 10, Number 4—April 2004
Dispatch
Dengue Fever Outbreak in a Recreation Club, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Yukiko Wagatsuma*, Robert F. Breiman*
, Anowar Hossain*, and Mahbubur Rahman*
, Anowar Hossain*, and Mahbubur Rahman*Table 2
Illness reported among employees and family members during the outbreak period, September–October 2001
| Employee categories | Family members with history of febrile illnesses during outbreak period | Dengue laboratory test confirmation done for febrile illnesses among family members |
|---|---|---|
| 13 employees with confirmed dengue |
2.0% (1/51)a |
No laboratory confirmation done |
| 76 employees who did not have dengue and did not have a febrile illness during outbreak period |
6.5% (14/215)a |
6 febrile patients had laboratory tests and 2 were serologically confirmed as dengue fever at commercial pathology laboratories |
| 11 employees who did not have dengue and who had a febrile illness during outbreak period |
14.3% (6/42)b |
No laboratory confirmation done |
| Total employees = 100 | 6.8% (21/308)a |
aNumber of febrile illnesses/number of family members.
bp = 0.04 when compared with the percentage of febrile illness among family members of case-patients.
