The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday published a report on a dengue outbreak in American Samoa that resulted in 1,048 confirmed cases and 371 hospitalizations. The report covers June 2025 through August 2026.
The report appeared in the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, in a section titled “Notes from the Field.” Its title describes the outbreak as occurring in American Samoa in 2025 and 2026.
The source text for this article is a single sentence. It gives the two case counts and the time span, and nothing more.
The text does not say how many people died, if any. It does not say which parts of American Samoa had the most cases or whether the outbreak has ended.
It also does not describe how the outbreak started or spread, what health officials did in response, or what the CDC or local authorities recommend to residents or visitors. It gives no breakdown of cases by age, sex or severity.