Volume 18, Number 4—April 2012
Historical Review
Dengue and US Military Operations from Spanish–American War through Today
Table 1
Dengue in US service members during World War II*
Location | Dates | Attack rate, % | No. cases | Maximum no. cases/1,000/y | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
North Territory and Queensland, Australia | 1942 Mar–May | 80 | ND | ND | (13) |
Rockhampton/Brisbane, Australia | 1943 Jan–Mar | ND | 463 | ND | (14) |
Espiritu Santo, archipelago of New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) | 1943 Feb–Aug | 25 | ≈5,000 | 1,713 | (15) |
New Caledonia | 1943 Jan–Aug | ND | ND | 645 | (13) |
1943 Jan–Aug | ND | ND | 120 | ||
Hawaii | 1943 | ND | 56 | ND | (16,17) |
Gilbert Islands | 1944 | ND | 396 | 26 | (16) |
New Guinea | 1944 Jan–Dec | ND | 24,079 | 198 | (13) |
1945 Jan–Aug | ND | 2,960 | 31 | ||
Philippines† | 1944 Nov–Dec | ND | 2,012 | 49 | (13) |
1945 Jan–Dec | ND | 8926 | 32 | ||
Saipan, Mariana Islands | 1944 Jul–Sep | ND | ~20,000 | 3,560 | (13,16) |
China-Burma-India | 1943 | ND | ND | 25 | (13) |
1944 | ND | ND | 31 | ||
1945 | ND | ND | 8 | ||
Okinawa, Japan | 1945 Apr–Aug | ND | ≈865 | 275 | (18) |
Hankow, China | 1945 Sep | 83 | 40 | ND | (13) |
*ND, no data.
†Reported to have reached 68 cases/1,000 service members/year in the Sixth Army.
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