Belize City Dengue Outbreak Accelerates Forward of Wet Season — Vax-Before-Travel

With the onset of the wet season in Central America, breeding websites for the mosquitoes that transmit the Dengue Fever virus have elevated, resulting in illness outbreaks.

According to native media reports on July 24, 2025, Belize City, a favourite vacation spot for over 500,000 vacationers, has lately been considerably impacted. The 

Belize Ministry of Health and Wellness has reported 160 instances within the Belize District as of the tip of June 2025, in comparison with 90 instances throughout the identical interval final yr.

The Ministry is reportedly engaged in varied interventions, together with clean-up campaigns and spraying mosquito breeding websites, that are ongoing in a number of communities. 

While 2024 was a record-setting yr for Dengue instances (13 million) within the Americas, new information point out that far fewer instances have been reported (3.4 million) to this point in 2025.

As of July 27, 2025, the U.S. CDC’s Global Dengue Travel Health Advisory doesn’t spotlight Belize’s state of affairs; varied nations within the Region of the Americas are listed. The CDC recommends worldwide vacationers communicate with a journey well being advisor earlier than visiting any space that’s reporting a illness outbreak.

In the United States, the Miami, Florida, has reported each travel-related and regionally acquired Dengue instances in 2025.