FILE - Jenny Chiroque sits on a bed with netting at La Merced Hospital where she is treated for dengue in Paita, Peru, Feb. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File) SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) —Dengue feveris sweeping across the Caribbean and the Americas...
HEALTH-ARGENTINA: DENGUE HAEMORRHAGIC FEVER IS HEREMarcela Valente
Dengue, a viral disease transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, causes an acute illness that usually develops symptoms such as headache, high fever, exhaustion, severe muscle and joint pain, swollen glands, vomiting and rash.■
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...
Omar Clemente Fuentes González is Head of the Ecology Laboratory in Control Vector Department. 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...
(DHF) are acute febrile diseases, found in the tropics, and caused by four closely related virus serotypes of the genusFlavivirus, family Flaviviridae. It is also known asbreakbone fever. The geographical spread includes northern Australia, northern Argentina, and the entire Singapore, Malaysia, ...
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...
Dengue fever is one of the most prevalent mosquito-borne diseases in Cambodia. Until now, no specific vaccine nor antiviral treatment exists the virus causing Dengue fever. Consequently, its prevention relies only on vector control strategies. However, efficient vector control in turn relies on a ...
An Aedes aegypti mosquito sucks blood from a person at a laboratory in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, on March 26, 2024.Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty Images "Municipal leaders have played a crucial role alongside the Department of Health, recognizing the impact that dengue ...
Dengue cases have been reported in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. Brazilian Health Ministry has registered over 1.2 million suspected cases of dengue fever with 299 deaths. Dengue "has become an important public health problem in the Americas," Rando said, noting "cases are rising in Uruguay."...