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Fatal Infection with Dengue Virus and Avian Orthoavulavirus 1 in Traveler Returning from Saudi Arabia to France, 2025

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: A previously healthy 26-year-old man died of hemorrhagic fever with fulminant hepatitis and shock 36 hours after returning to France from Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Postmortem analyses detected low-level dengue virus RNA and positive NS1 antigen along with unexpected extremely high-titer disseminated velogenic avian orthoavulavirus 1 infection with elevated systemic cytokine responses.

Source: Emerging infectious diseases

DOI: 10.3201/eid3210.26-0736

Authors: Maud Salmona, Salomé Schlupmann, Morgane Mailhe, Dorothée Chopin, Quentin Richier, Karine Lacombe, Lila Bouadma, Jean-Francois Timsit, Vincent Bondet, Quentin Le Hingrat, Jérôme Le Goff, Jamie Sugrue, Darragh Duffy, Olivier Schwartz, Michael White, Valérie Paradis, Franck Verdonk, François-Xavier Lescure, Marie Jaspard

Institutions: Inserm, Université Paris Cité, Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Hôpital Bichat-Claude-Bernard

Language: English

Topic: Mosquito-borne diseases and control

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W7212232114

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