By Lt. Dustin Harrison, Research Department, Naval Medical Research Unit 2 Pacific, Pearl Harbor Hawaii.

"NAMRU-2, the oldest of the Navy’s overseas research labs, conducts infectious disease research, surveillance, and outbreak response in the PACOM AOR which includes the islands  from Hawaii to South East and East Asia, and dengue fever is a focus of our research. We support operational and deployed U. S. Forces to reduce and eliminate diseases which can be mission abortive. We are also very heavily involved in promoting global public health and this outbreak response is core mission requirement. It took a few days, but we finally received the go-ahead. At the request of the government of the RMI, and working closely with CDC‘s epidemiologists, entomologists, and the Dengue
Branch in Puerto Rico and the WHO, we sent a five man vector control team to the island of Majuro to assist in mosquito identification, control, and capacity building, which included teaching the local Marshallese to identify and apply pesticides."

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