ONE IMPORTED: Two men, a woman and a teen were confirmed to have the disease, two being DENV-3 cases. All are National Cheng Kung University students

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 30, 2019
By: Lee I-chia  /  Staff reporter

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday announced the first cluster of dengue fever cases to affect a university campus this year, with four students at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan confirmed to have the disease.

The first of the four cases was a man in his 30s living in Dasyue Borough (大學) of Tainan’s East District (東區), who on Wednesday last week was confirmed to have dengue virus serotype 3 (DENV-3), the first DENV-3 case in the nation this year, the CDC said.

Three new cases were confirmed yesterday, including two indigenous dengue cases — a teenager living in Dongsing Borough (東興) of North District (北區) and a woman in her 20s living in Dasyue, neither of whom had traveled abroad recently — and another in Dasyue involving a man in his 20s, with the case brought in from outside Tainan.

The woman was confirmed to have a DENV-3 infection, the centers said.    [FULL  STORY]