Abstract
Co-infection with Zika and dengue viruses in 2 patients, New Caledonia, 2014.
Highlights
In New Caledonia, dengue virus (DENV) outbreaks have occurred since World War II and have been caused mainly by 1 serotype/genotype introduced from a country to which dengue is hyperendemic
In New Caledonia, the first cases of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection imported from French Polynesia were confirmed at the end of November 2013, and the first autochthonous cases were reported by mid-January 2014
We report detection of ZIKV and DENV genomes in serum of a traveler who returned from French Polynesia where ZIKV and DENV were co-circulating (6,9) and in serum of a person in New Caledonia who had no travel history
Summary
In New Caledonia, DENV outbreaks have occurred since World War II and have been caused mainly by 1 serotype/genotype introduced from a country to which dengue is hyperendemic. In New Caledonia, the first cases of ZIKV infection imported from French Polynesia were confirmed at the end of November 2013, and the first autochthonous cases were reported by mid-January 2014. In February 2014, the New Caledonia Health Authority declared an outbreak situation. Since February 2014, a total of 1,385 ZIKV laboratory-confirmed cases have been detected, including 35 imported cases (32 from French Polynesia, 2 from Vanuatu, and 1 from the Cook Islands).
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