ABC News Texas public health officials announced on Monday that the state’s first locally acquired case of dengue virus of the year was reported in Cameron County.
There have been 106 travel-associated dengue cases in Texas in 2024, one of which resulted in death, officials said in a press release, noting this is the highest annual case count in Texas since 2002.
“Locally acquired” means that the people infected have no history of traveling to an area of the world where dengue normally spreads.