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Outbreak of Zika Virus Disease - American Samoa, 2016
2016
Overview
During December 2015-January 2016, the American Samoa Department of Health (ASDoH) detected through surveillance an increase in the number of cases of acute febrile rash illness. Concurrently, a case of laboratory-confirmed Zika virus infection, a mosquito-borne flavivirus infection documented to cause microcephaly and other severe brain defects in some infants born to women infected during pregnancy was reported in a traveler returning to New Zealand from American Samoa. In the absence of local laboratory capacity to test for Zika virus, ASDoH initiated arboviral disease control measures, including public education and vector source reduction campaigns. On February 1, CDC staff members were deployed to American Samoa to assist ASDoH with testing and surveillance efforts. To track the progression of the outbreak in the absence of confirmed case results, trends in the number of suspected Zika virus disease cases were monitored through syndromic surveillance using automated searches of the electronic health record system at the one hospital and four health care clinics in the territory.
