NBC 4 – Los Angeles
By City News Service • Published October 20, 2023 • Updated on October 21, 2023 at 4:06 pm
Pasadena health officials Friday reported what they call an “extremely rare” case of local transmission of the mosquito-borne dengue virus, the first known case in California to occur in a person who had not recently traveled.
“Pasadena Public Health Department has been conducting surveillance and investigation of mosquito-borne diseases in Pasadena for years,” Dr. Matthew Feaster, an epidemiologist with the Pasadena Public Health Department, said in a statement. “Our work so far, in partnership with the Vector Control District, gives us confidence that this was likely an isolated incident and that there is very low risk of additional dengue exposure in Pasadena.”