Community Involvement in Dengue Outbreak Control: An Integrated Rigorous Intervention Strategy.

• Published in: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Hualiang Lin, Tao Liu, Tie Song, Lifeng Lin, Jianpeng Xiao, Jinyan Lin, Jianfeng He, Haojie Zhong, Wenbiao Hu, Aiping Deng, Zhiqiang Peng, Wenjun Ma, Yonghui Zhang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004919; https://doaj.org/article/fd756be5f9cf4837a0816a417c265633

BACKGROUND:An explosive outbreak of dengue fever occurred in Guangdong Province, China in 2014. A community-based integrated intervention was applied to control this outbreak in the capital city Guangzhou, where dengue epidemic was mainly caused by imported cases. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:We used a time series generalized additive model based on meteorological factors to assess the effectiveness of this intervention. The results showed that there was significant reduction in mosquito density following the intervention, and there was a 70.47% (95% confidence interval: 66.07%, 74.88%) reduction in the reported dengue cases compared with the predicted cases after 12 days since the beginning of the intervention, we estimated that a total of 23,302 dengue cases were prevented. CONCLUSIONS:This study suggests that an integrated dengue intervention program has significant effects to control a dengue outbreak in areas where dengue epidemic was mainly caused by imported dengue cases.