LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Two people in Southern California have come down with dengue fever without traveling outside the United States, where the mosquito-borne illness is rare, health officials said. A Pasadena resident was confirmed to have dengue last month but is recovering, officials said. “This is the first confirmed case of dengue in California not associated with travel and is instead an extremely rare case of local transmission in the continental United States,” the Pasadena Public Health Department announced. On Wednesday, Long Beach officials announced another domestically contracted dengue case and said that person has recovered. The new California cases were not part of that count.

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Organizations: Pasadena Public Health Department, Long Beach, U.S . Centers for Disease Control Locations: Calif, Southern California, United States, Pasadena, California, U.S, Puerto Rico, Florida, Texas