COVID-19 prevention measures reduce dengue spread in Yunnan Province, China, but do not reduce established outbreak.

ABSTRACT: ABSTRACTThe COVID-19 pandemic and measures against it provided a unique opportunity to understand the transmission of other infectious diseases and to evaluate the efficacy of COVID-19 prevention measures on them. Here we show a dengue epidemic in Yunnan, China, during the pandemic of COVID-19 was dramatically reduced compared to non-pandemic years and, importantly, spread was confined to only one city, Ruili. Three key features characterized this dengue outbreak: (i) the urban-to-suburban spread was efficiently blocked; (ii) the scale of epidemic in urban region was less affected; (iii) co-circulation of multiple strains was attenuated. These results suggested that countermeasures taken during COVID-19 pandemic are efficient to prevent dengue transmission between cities and from ur

SUBMITTER: Sheng ZY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8745368 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature