Dengue in Cape Verde: vector control and vaccination

TL;DR

This paper models the impact of vector control and hypothetical vaccination on dengue spread in Cape Verde, highlighting potential strategies to mitigate future outbreaks based on simulation data.

Contribution

It introduces a simulation-based analysis of vector control and vaccination effects specific to Cape Verde's dengue outbreak context.

Findings

Vector control significantly reduces disease spread

Vaccination could potentially prevent future outbreaks

Simulation results support targeted intervention strategies

Abstract

In 2009, for the first time in Cape Verde, an outbreak of dengue was reported and over twenty thousand people were infected. Only a few prophylactic measures were taken. The effects of vector control on disease spreading, such as insecticide (larvicide and adulticide) and mechanical control, as well as an hypothetical vaccine, are estimated through simulations with the Cape Verde data.