Austin Leads Texas’s Travel-Associated Dengue Instances Once more — Vax-Before-Travel

Now in its third decade of serving vacationers in Central Texas, Austin–Bergstrom International Airport welcomed over two million guests final month, lots of whom arrived from abroad.

Unfortunately, this yr, eight guests to Travis County, and Austin, Texas, contracted the Dengue virus whereas touring overseas.

Last yr, Travis County reported 18 travel-related instances of Dengue, probably the most in Texas.

According to the Texas Department of State Health Services’ (DSHS) arbovirus weekly report #36, there have been 31 travel-related Dengue instances reported in Texas this yr.

This information is comparatively constructive in comparison with 2024, when 143 imported Dengue instances and one associated fatality occurred throughout 23 Texas counties.

Texas is just not alone in reporting fewer Dengue instances in 2025.

Throughout the United States, 3,045 instances of mosquito-transmitted Dengue have been confirmed this yr.

In 2024, 53 U.S. jurisdictions reported 9,391 Dengue instances.

Only a couple of states, resembling Florida, reported regionally acquired Dengue instances final yr.

And within the Region of the Americas, as of epidemiological week 34, a complete of three,740,133 suspected instances of Dengue had been reported in 2025. This information represents a 68% lower in comparison with the identical interval in 2024.

To improve illness detection, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggested clinicians in July 2025 to contemplate Dengue in sufferers with fever who stay in or have not too long ago traveled to areas with a danger of Dengue.

Furthermore, to alert worldwide vacationers to this well being danger, the CDC reissued a Global Travel Health Notice on August 21, 2025, relating to Dengue outbreaks within the Americas, Africa/Middle East, and Asia/Pacific areas, in nations resembling India, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Myanmar. 

From a illness prevention perspective, the CDC says mitigating mosquito bites is the most suitable choice, as entry to Dengue vaccines within the USA is at present restricted to youngsters in Puerto Rico.