Dengue fever is caused by dengue virus DENV serotypes 1—4 , which causes a spectrum of acute febrile illness 1. In Argentina, dengue was reported for the first time in over 80 years in the northwestern Province of Salta in , and has since been largely constrained to northern provinces of the country that have a subtropical climate 2 , 3.
Both chikungunya and Zika virus are transmitted primarily by the same vector as dengue virus. The orange, pink, and green highlighted countries are countries from which at least one dengue case was known to have been imported. Origins of imports were unknown for the majority of dengue cases reported. Vector control by the MoH is mostly focal, around homes with dengue cases, and includes control of adult mosquito populations indoor and outdoor fumigation and larval mosquitoes Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis larvicide application, elimination of larval habitat 8.
However, these efforts were unable to prevent outbreaks as in , and risk perception by the public remains low. The aim of this work was to present the epidemiological characteristics of the emergence of dengue fever and other arboviral diseases i.
We obtained epidemiological data by manually extracting records from reports published by the Argentinian National MoH today the Argentinian National MoH is known as the Health Secretary due to National government decisions to change the category of Minister to the lower rank of Secretary 6.
The availability of the data presented herein is critical to researchers interested in understanding patterns of emerging dengue transmission and, when complemented with other social-ecological data and epidemiological datasets from other sites would allow for the investigation of the many possible drivers of novel arbovirus emergence in temperate regions.
