Los Angeles health officials announced they are investigating a handful of locally acquired dengue fever cases in the city of Baldwin Park. The two cases were announced by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on Wednesday,

At least three cases of dengue fever have been reported in residents bitten by local mosquitoes in the Baldwin Park neighborhood east of downtown Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles area is seeing more cases of people with dengue fever without traveling outside the United States, a year after the first such case was reported in California.