HEALTH-ARGENTINA: DENGUE HAEMORRHAGIC FEVER IS HEREMarcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Argentina has detected 504,580 cases of dengue so far this year, an outbreak that is 3.26 times larger than a year before, driven by infections in the Central region, the Health Ministry said Sunday. The number of cases represents 97 percent of the 521,...
BUENOS AIRES, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Argentina's government on Tuesday blamed a record outbreak of dengue fever on "lack of prevention last year," and confirmed the country's strategy will be to combat the disease-carrying mosquito instead of resorting to a vaccine. The Ministry of Health said...
Lydia Platón, a 55-year-old English professor at the University of Puerto Rico, got dengue in October. “You have fever all the time. You have horrible chills,” she said. “I don’t feel that my energy has returned yet.” Her neighborhood reported five ca...
Dengue can provokehemorrhagic feverin severe cases, and death. "I try not to go out much, I don't take my grandchildren to the park so as not to be in the grass," added Di Costa. With 129 deaths so far this year, Argentina has seen a ten-fold increase compared to the same period...
He has a Bachelor in Sciences in Biological Sciences, University of Havana, Cuba, 1976 and has attended more than 40 national and international congreses in Cuba, USA, France, Portugal, Argentina, and Bolivia. He has been working in some countries of the region such as Belize in the ...
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C could avoid around 3.3 million cases of dengue fever per year in Latin America and the Caribbean alone—according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA).
and Argentina), the Caribbean (except Cuba and the Cayman Islands), Mexico, and Africa. There is a somewhat lower risk for travelers to Taiwan and the Pacific Islands. The Middle East and Northern Australia have a still lower risk of Dengue transmission. New Zealand is free of dengue fever...
Indigenous Dengue Fever, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Volume 14, Number 9—September 2008 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal - CDC Public health authorities should involve the clinical and laboratory community and engage the local community in vector control and case reporting. Since 2... MNE Al ...
Flaviviruses (Dengue, Yellow Fever, Japanese Encephalitis, West Nile Encephalitis, St. Louis Encephalitis, Tick-Borne Encephalitis, Kyasanur Forest Disease, Alkhurma Hemorrhagic Fever, Zika) Several medically important mosquito-borne flaviviruses have been detected in Argentina in recent years: Dengue (DE...